Man gets life for wife's murder, kin jailed for destroying evidence
Mirzapur, June 2 -- In a case of gender bias and domestic violence, a local court has sentenced a man to life imprisonment after he murdered his wife for allegedly not giving him a son, in Shahjahanpur district. The court also sentenced the accused's father and uncle each to four years in prison for helping him dispose of the body and destroy evidence.
The verdict was delivered by the court of additional sessions judge Ashish Verma, who found Guddu, from Majhra village in Jalalabad, guilty of killing his wife Premlata and disposing of her body in the Behgul River with the help of his father Madanpal and uncle Walister.
According to the complaint filed by Premlata's father, Ramprakash, a resident of Bahariya village under Mirzapur police station limits, his daughter had been married to Guddu for 12 years before her death in 2018. The couple had four daughters, one of whom had died.
Guddu was reportedly unhappy about not having a son and frequently quarrelled with Premlata over the issue.
Ramprakash stated in his FIR, lodged on August 13, 2018, that Guddu often made disturbing remarks, saying that if Premlata were to die, he would remarry. This claim was also supported by Ramprakash's younger daughter, Kiran....
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