Mohali, Feb. 3 -- A Kharar resident has been sentenced to seven years of rigorous imprisonment for abetting his wife's suicide in 2020.

The court of additional sessions judge Baljinder Singh Sra also imposed a fine of Rs.2,000 on the convict, Rakesh Singh, who has already spent four years and three months in judicial custody. The court, thus, set off the period of detention already undergone by the convict.

The court, however, acquitted the in-laws of the deceased due to lack of evidence.

As per case files, on May 23, 2020, Kharar police received information that a woman had ended her life by hanging herself with a dupatta from a ceiling fan.

Upon arrival, police found that the deceased had already been untied from the ceiling fan, an...