India, June 25 -- The Supreme Court refused to grant relief to an army officer who has been charged with the murder of his wife in a case of dowry death.

While rejecting the army officer's plea urging protection from arrest, a bench of Justices Ujjal Bhuyan and K Vinod Chandran asked him to surrender within a period of two weeks, according to ANI news agency.

The army officer had moved the top court against the Punjab and Haryana High Court's decision denying him relief.

While passing the order, the court said that an 'exemption from surrender' was only allowed in cases involving less serious offences, unlike the charges that the army officer had been accused of.

During the hearing, the bench noted that the fact that the convict was a...