HC upholds life imprisonment for woman who strangled husband

The Delhi High Court today upheld the life imprisonment sentence of a woman for killing her husband who had married another girl. Asra Bano had strangulated her husband to death with her 'chunni' in July 1996 after she came to know that he had secretly married another girl.

In the gruesome murder, Bano had chopped off the private parts of her husband Raju after killing him. She then had gone to chamber of a public prosecutor in the Delhi High Court where she had confessed her crime. The police then took her into custody and she was prosecuted for killing her husband.
 
Relying on her confession made before the public prosecutor and testimony of other witnesses, the trial court had on March 2001 convicted her and awarded life imprisonment. She then approached the High Court against the sentence.
 
The High Court, after going through all the evidences, found no deficiencies in the verdict of the trial court. "It is clear from the reading of these testimonies that there is no discrepancy in any of these statements," a bench comprising Justices Pradeep Nandrajog and Indermeet Kaur said.
 
"In our view, there is no infirmity in the findings. All the links in the chain have been closely interwoven and unerringly point figures of guilt at her," the court said while dismissing Bano's plea.