Man gets life imprisonment for hacking wife to death with a machete

  • | Thursday | 20th September, 2018

“The machete cut her liver resulting in excessive internal bleeding and she died,” said Thakur. Prosecution lawyer Jaya Thakur said that Kumar had married Divya, daughter of Joseph, in 2009 when she was just 16.However, both started having marital problems after getting married. The arguments turned nasty and when Divya tried to diffuse the situation, Kumar attacked her with a machete,” said the prosecution lawyer.Divya was taken to the hospital where doctors pronounced her brought dead. Dehradun: An additional district judge (ADJ) court on Thursday sentenced a 35-year-old man to life imprisonment for hacking his wife to death by a machete in 2014 in Dehradun.The court of R K Khulbe pronounced Sagar Kumar, a resident of Chandrabani, guilty under section 302 (murder) of Indian Penal Code (IPC) and section 25 of the Arms Act while sentencing him to life imprisonment.The judge also slapped a fine of Rs 10,000 on the convict. In 2012, Divya moved out of Kumar’s home in Chandrabani and started staying at her maternal home in Defence Colony in Dehradun and filed an application in the family court seeking a divorce from her husband.“On November 25, 2014, Sagar reached Divya’s house in Defence Colony and started abusing her and his father-in-law.

Dehradun: An additional district judge (ADJ) court on Thursday sentenced a 35-year-old man to life imprisonment for hacking his wife to death by a machete in 2014 in Dehradun.The court of R K Khulbe pronounced Sagar Kumar, a resident of Chandrabani, guilty under section 302 (murder) of Indian Penal Code (IPC) and section 25 of the Arms Act while sentencing him to life imprisonment.The judge also slapped a fine of Rs 10,000 on the convict. Prosecution lawyer Jaya Thakur said that Kumar had married Divya, daughter of Joseph, in 2009 when she was just 16.However, both started having marital problems after getting married. In 2012, Divya moved out of Kumar’s home in Chandrabani and started staying at her maternal home in Defence Colony in Dehradun and filed an application in the family court seeking a divorce from her husband.“On November 25, 2014, Sagar reached Divya’s house in Defence Colony and started abusing her and his father-in-law. The arguments turned nasty and when Divya tried to diffuse the situation, Kumar attacked her with a machete,” said the prosecution lawyer.Divya was taken to the hospital where doctors pronounced her brought dead. “The machete cut her liver resulting in excessive internal bleeding and she died,” said Thakur.

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