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Bombay High Court upholds life sentence of wife killer

The Bombay high court has upheld the life sentence of a man who killed his wife within four years of their marriage because she could not satisfy his repeated demands for dowry so he could buy a field.

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The Bombay high court has upheld the life sentence of a man who killed his wife within four years of their marriage because she could not satisfy his repeated demands for dowry so he could buy a field.

A bench of Justices PV Hardas and Shalini Phansalkar-Joshi upheld the conviction of Kolhapur resident Gajanan Khade, 39, observing that he had failed to prove his theory that his wife, Aruna, committed suicide. A sessions court at Ichalkaranji had convicted Khade on September 4, 2007, on charges of murder and cruelty. The sessions court had acquitted his parents and sister for lack of evidence. Khade then filed an appeal before HC.

Khade and Aruna got married on June 29, 2002. According to additional public prosecutor SD Shinde, four months after their marriage, Khade and his family members started harassing and ill-treating Aruna for not giving them the money they had demanded to buy the field.

Defence advocate Murtuza Najmi argued that it was a case of suicide and Khade was being framed. The judges disregarded the theory, saying that no evidence had been produced to show that his wife was had been found hanging.

 

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