Orissa High Court Finds Man Who Killed His Wife With Chopping Knife Guilty of Murder, Says 'Wife's Request to Her Husband To Wait for Food Not Grave Provocation'
The high court bench of Justices SK Sahoo and Chittaranjan Dash rejected the man's explanation that he had attacked his wife because she had provoked him by asking him to wait for food when he had come home hungry after work in the field. The accused even urged the court to set aside his murder conviction while arguing that his actions could only amount to culpable homicide, not amounting to murder.
The Orissa High Court recently upheld the murder conviction of a man who had attacked his wife with a katuri (chopping knife), thereby leading to her death. The alleged murder occurred after the wife requested her husband to wait for a while to be served food. The high court bench of Justices SK Sahoo and Chittaranjan Dash rejected the man's explanation that he had attacked his wife because she had provoked him by asking him to wait for food when he had come home hungry after work in the field. The accused even urged the court to set aside his murder conviction while arguing that his actions could only amount to culpable homicide, not amounting to murder, since the wife had provoked him into attacking her. However, the state's top court said that a wife could not be considered to have caused "grave and sudden provocation" to her hungry husband simply by requesting him to wait while she prepared food. ‘Foul Play Cannot Be Ruled Out’: Orissa High Court Directs State To Grant INR 2 Lakh Interim Compensation for Unnatural Death of Convicted Prisoner.
HC Finds Man Guilty of Murder
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