Lucknow, Nov. 26 -- The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has upheld the life sentence awarded to a Unnao man convicted of murdering his 17-year-old daughter. The court concluded that the prosecution had successfully established a complete chain of circumstances pointing to his guilt. A division bench of Justice Rajnish Kumar and Justice Rajeev Singh on November 24 dismissed the appeal filed by Raju Batham, who was convicted by the trial court in 2016 for killing his daughter by strangling her with a cloth string. As per the prosecution, a written complaint was lodged by the convict's wife, Santosh Kumari Kashyap, on July 8, 2015. She stated that their daughter, a student of Class 12, had been speaking frequently with a young man from their locality, leading to repeated objections from the father. According to the complaint, the situation escalated on the intervening night of July 7-8, when the girl allegedly insisted she wanted to go away with the boy. In the complaint, the mother said her husband strangled the girl inside a room of their house around 1-2 am, and fled when she intervened. She took the girl to the district hospital, where she was declared dead. Holding the appeal as "misconceived and baseless," the high court affirmed the conviction and life sentence awarded by the trial court, and directed transmission of the record for compliance....