A Bhavnagar court sentenced Faisal Lakhani to life imprisonment for the murder of Kajal Baraiya.

Sixty-two days, 31 days, and two months are not the same interval. September 3, on PTI, The Hawk, and NDTV India, and September 4, on DeshGujarat, are not the same date. Faizal, and Faisal, are not the same spelling. Rizwana Bukhari, and R. V. Bukhari, are not the same form of the judge's name. Fourteen witnesses, on Rediff's PTI copy, and 31 witnesses, on NDTV India, are not the same count. The life term is what those outlets say the court imposed.

PTI, in a story datelined Bhavnagar and marked Nov. 5, reported a court in Gujarat's Bhavnagar city on Thursday sentenced a man to life imprisonment for thrashing a woman at a bus station, which caused her death, two months after the crime. It reported Principal Sessions Judge Rizwana Bukhari convicted Faisal Lakhani for the murder of Kajal Baraiya, who lived with him on a footpath for the last eight years as his wife. It reported the assault at the busy bus station caused a public outcry and that police constituted a Special Investigation Team. Rediff, which labels the story Source: PTI and Edited By: Rediff News Desk, published November 05, 2026, at 21:08 IST, carries that lede and adds the rest. It reported that on September 3, Lakhani attacked Baraiya near the entrance of the bus stand, that she died the next day, and that Nilambag police then registered a murder case. It reported that on October 4, exactly a month later, police filed a chargesheet, and that on November 5 he was sentenced to life imprisonment, with no possibility of release before the end of his natural life. Life imprisonment, on the PTI lede, and life imprisonment with no possibility of release before the end of his natural life, on the Rediff copy, are not the same fullness of the term. It reported that during a crime-scene reconstruction police flogged him at the same spot, that officials said it was done to appease public sentiment, and that a video went viral. It reported the prosecution's account that he had a string of cases, including robbery, was back after a jail term, and suspected Baraiya of an affair with another acquaintance. It reported that when he found her sitting with that man on September 3, he attacked both of them, and that police said he kicked and punched her and smashed her head against a wall and the tiled floor. It reported the prosecution produced 14 witnesses and nearly 50 pieces of documentary evidence, which the court accepted. It reported the prosecution said he had a key eyewitness abducted, that the witness was held three days, and that the witness was rescued and brought to court. The PTI page as retrieved stops at the special-team sentence. The September 3 date, the next-day death, the October 4 chargesheet, the natural-life line, the flogging, the 14 witnesses, the nearly 50 documents, and the three-day abduction are the Rediff copy.

DeshGujarat, dated November 05, 2026, with no clock and no zone, spells him Faizal alias Khatki Lakhani, 25, and reported a Bhavnagar District and Sessions Court sentenced him to life imprisonment for the murder of Kajal Baraiya, "just 62 days after the crime." Faizal, on DeshGujarat, and Faisal, on PTI and Rediff, are not the same spelling. Alias Khatki is on DeshGujarat. It is not on the PTI lede. Age 25 is on DeshGujarat. It is not on PTI or Rediff. It reported District and Sessions Judge R. V. Bukhari pronounced the verdict and sentenced him to imprisonment for the remainder of his natural life. R. V. Bukhari, and Rizwana Bukhari, are not the same form of the name. District and Sessions Judge, and Principal Sessions Judge, are not the same title. It reported Baraiya was assaulted and murdered in public by Faizal, her live-in partner, following a quarrel on September 4. September 4, on DeshGujarat, and September 3, on Rediff's PTI copy, are not the same date. Live-in partner, and the woman who lived with him on a footpath for eight years as his wife, are not the same description. It reported police said he suspected an affair, that an argument turned violent, that he repeatedly kicked her, causing severe kidney injuries, and that she died while undergoing treatment at a hospital. Kidney injuries, and a head smashed against a wall and a tiled floor, are not the same injury account. Died while undergoing treatment, and succumbed the next day, are not the same timing. It reported a video purportedly showing police beating him during a reconstruction went viral. Beating, on DeshGujarat, and flogged, on Rediff, are not the same word. It reported Nilambag police filed the charge sheet on October 4, "exactly a month after the murder," and that the court delivered the verdict within 62 days of the murder. Just 62 days after the crime, and within 62 days of the murder, are both on that page. It does not print 14 witnesses, nearly 50 documents, or a three-day abduction.

The Hawk, carrying an IANS story with a byline clock of 5 Nov 2026, 06:06 p.m. IST, and also printing 07:40 p.m. on the page, reported a Bhavnagar district court sentenced a man to imprisonment for the remainder of his natural life, "with the trial concluding within 31 days," police said. It spells him Faisal alias Khatki Lakhani. Faisal alias Khatki, on The Hawk, and Faizal alias Khatki, on DeshGujarat, are not the same spelling of the first name. It reported he was convicted of murdering Kajalben DBaraiya near the public entry gate of the Bhavnagar State Transport bus stand on September 3. Kajalben DBaraiya, on The Hawk, and Kajal Baraiya, on PTI, Rediff, and DeshGujarat, are not the same spelling. It reported the sentence was pronounced on November 5, according to Nilambaug police. Nilambaug, on The Hawk, and Nilambag, on Rediff and DeshGujarat, are not the same spelling. It does not print the judge's name. It reported he is a native of Vartej who was living on the footpath near the bus stand, and that police said he attacked her to establish his dominance. Dominance, on The Hawk, and suspicion of an affair, on Rediff and DeshGujarat, are not the same motive. It reported he abused her, repeatedly kicked and punched her, grabbed her by the hair, smashed her head against a wall and the tiled floor, and struck her on the head, neck, and sides. It reported a case was registered at Nilambaug on September 4, a Special Investigation Team was formed on the instructions of Range Inspector General Rajendra Asari, under Superintendent Nitesh Pandey and Deputy Superintendent R R Singhal, and that the roster included inspector D P Undakat and sub-inspector A G Brind. It reported a post-mortem at Sir-T Hospital, and that the chargesheet was submitted October 4, "a month after the murder." September 3 to October 4 is 31 days. A month after the murder, and 31 days from September 3 to October 4, are both ways that page's dates can be read, and The Hawk uses the month line for the chargesheet. It reported the state appointed senior advocate Utpal Dave, and quoted officials that the court found the charges proved beyond a reasonable doubt and sentenced him to imprisonment for the remainder of his natural life. It reported police said he arranged the kidnapping of an eyewitness who was held three days, that a separate case was registered, and that police brought the witness to court. It reported Bhavnagar police called this the first case in the district in which a trial was completed and an accused sentenced within 31 days. Thirty-one days, on The Hawk, and 62 days, on DeshGujarat, are not the same count. October 4 to November 5 is 32 days. Within 31 days, and 32 days from the chargesheet date to November 5, are not the same count. September 4 to November 5 is 62 days, which matches DeshGujarat's number and DeshGujarat's September 4 date. September 3 to November 5 is 63 days. Two months, on PTI, is not 62 days and is not 31 days.

NDTV India, in Hindi, reported the court sentenced the accused to imprisonment until the end of his natural life in the killing of 40-year-old Kajal Baraiya at the Bhavnagar State Transport bus stand on September 3, and that the trial was completed within 31 days after the chargesheet. Age 40 for Baraiya is on NDTV India. It is not on PTI, Rediff, DeshGujarat, or The Hawk. The same NDTV India page prints the accused's first name as फैसल and as फैयसल. Those are not the same spelling. Its English display line uses Faisal Lakhani. It also prints आजीवन कारावास, life imprisonment, and प्राकृतिक जीवन के अंत तक, until the end of natural life. It reported the case was registered September 4 at Nilambag, that he was suspicious of a relationship between Kajal and रवि बरैया उर्फ रवि बड़ा, Ravi Baraiya, also called Ravi Bada, and that after the attack he took her to a hospital, claimed she was hurt in a fall on a stone slab, and pressed for no post-mortem. A stone-slab fall, on NDTV India, and a head smashed on a wall and tiled floor, on Rediff and The Hawk, are not the same account. It reported forensic examiners found the injuries could not have come from an ordinary fall. It reported he allegedly used relatives to abduct the witness Ravi: a brother, डिडु, Didu, took him away in an auto-rickshaw, and a mother, शहनाजबेन, Shahnazben, was also named. It reported police learned of the abduction, he was released, and he testified. Three days, on Rediff and The Hawk, is not a number on that NDTV India account. It reported a seven-year-old son of Kajal testified that she was his mother and that Faisal was not his father, and that the child identified विनोद, Vinod, as his father. The child is not named here. It reported 31 witness statements were recorded, including shopkeepers and four independent panch witnesses, and that special public prosecutor उत्पल दवे, the name The Hawk prints as Utpal Dave, argued the case. Thirty-one witnesses, on NDTV India, and 14 witnesses, on Rediff's PTI copy, are not the same count. NDTV India names inspector दीपक उंधाड़ and a sub-inspector ए.जी. ब्रीड. दीपक उंधाड़, and D P Undakat, are not the same name. ए.जी. ब्रीड, and A G Brind, are not the same spelling. NDTV India does not print the judge's name in the text read here. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.