India, July 30 -- The Madhya Pradesh high court has upheld the life imprisonment of a former chemistry professor convicted of killing her husband, rejecting her technical argument based on her expertise against the evidence cited.

Mamata Pathak, 64, the convict, cited flaws in the post-mortem report, especially on the timing of death and electrocution, based on scientific theories, when a bench of justices Vivek Agrawal and Devnarayan Mishra heard the matter in April. Her arguments prompted Justice Agrawal to ask: "Are you a chemistry professor?" A video of Pathak's arguments went viral on social media.

On Tuesday, the high court rejected Pathak's appeal and upheld her sentence. A local court in Chhatarpur convicted her in June 2022 of ...