New Delhi, May 27 -- Delhi's Tis Hazari Court has recently awarded a life sentence to a man who killed his wife by burning her in 2014. The court stated that the case does not fall under the category of "rarest of rare" cases.

An FIR was registered at the Sarai Rohilla Railway Station police station in 2014. The court had held the accused guilty of murder on April 9, 2025.

Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Virender Kumar Kharta sentenced Giriraj Kishor Bhardwaj alias Shyam Nagar for murdering his wife Kusum.

The court rejected poverty as a significant mitigating factor and noted that the aggravating circumstances outweighed the mitigating ones.

While sentencing the convict on May 17, the court said, "In the present case, the aggravating...