Guwahati: A court in Assam's Chirang district on Monday sentenced seven people to life imprisonment over the killing of a couple after labelling them witches in November 2011. The case had been registered with the Dhaligaon police station in 2011.

Public prosecutor Karuna Kanta Das told the media that the seven were convicted on charges of murder and disappearance of evidence against offence under the Indian Penal Code. A group of villagers in Dimakumari in Dhaligaon, about 200 km west of Guwahati, had labelled 55-year-old Raman Narzary and his 50-year-old wife Bulaw as witches.