India, Dec. 28 -- The Bombay High Court recently upheld the life imprisonment handed out to a tailor, who assaulted and killed his mother-in-law with a scissor in 2012.

Dismissing the accused Murgesh Pechi Muttu's appeal against his conviction, a division bench of justices Manish Pitale and Manjusha Deshpande said, "The ferocity of the assault and the fact that the victim died even before reaching the hospital, shows the brutality inflicted by the appellant."

The incident dates back to December 19, 2012 when Muttu's mother-in-law Manju Swamy intervened while he was allegedly hitting her daughter Asha. He pulled out a single blade from a pair of scissors from his pocket and fatally injured Swamy on her head and back.

Three months prior ...