Summary:
PUNE: A sessions court here has convicted and sentenced an army lance naik to life imprisonment for strangling his wife to death at their residential block at the Ghorpadi Lines on February 20, 2012.Lance Naik Gangadatt Liladhar Tiwari (39) had initially claimed that his wife Rashmi committed suicide. When the doctor advised him to immediately rush her to a hospital as she seemed to have passed away, he left the house leaving behind his three-year-old son. He made an attempt to show that it was a case of hanging. He gave false information to the police and doctor. However, her post mortem report revealed asphyxia as the cause of death, which led to the police registering a case of murder.Additional public prosecutor Leena Pathak told TOI, “Tiwari’s conduct was suspicious as he first called a private doctor to inspect his wife despite having access to the army’s medical services..