Summary:
more-inThe Delhi High Court has upheld the life imprisonment of a man who was convicted of stabbing his wife to death with a pair of scissors following a quarrel. Mehta refused to accept the contention of the man that the offence was a result of sudden provocation that will fall under ‘culpable homicide not amounting to murder’. She stated that on the night of June 28, 2010, a quarrel erupted between her mother and the man. At this time, he had two children from his first wife and the deceased also had two children from her previous marriage. He had married the deceased after his first wife died..