India, Feb. 3 -- A Bengaluru bank employee, wrongfully jailed for the brutal rape and murder of his wife, has been cleared after an intense 11-year legal battle.

In 2013, the city was shaken by the shocking discovery of a 43-year-old woman's body in a eucalyptus grove on the Bengaluru-Doddaballapur highway. Her husband, the bank employee, had reported her missing after she failed to return home from work, Indian Express reported.

According to the report, her body was found days later, and a post-mortem revealed that she had been sexually assaulted.

Despite the lack of concrete evidence, the police arrested the husband, accusing him of murder based on bloodstains found in his house. After spending 73 days in jail, he was released when t...