Parel resident sentenced to 7 years in prison for beating his wife to death | Mumbai news

MUMBAI: The court recently sentenced a 43-year-old Parel resident to seven years in prison for beating his wife to death after she refused to have dinner with him.

The court found convict Ajay Sukhdev Adsul guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to murder, observing that the prosecution evidence was not sufficient to prove that his intention was to kill his wife.

The prosecution heard 15 witnesses, including a female police officer, her mother-in-law and the dead woman’s two older children. The woman constable of Bhoiwada police station received a call from KEM Hospital informing that a resident of Parel had fallen in the bathroom and was declared dead before being taken to the hospital.

On investigation, the mother-in-law of the deceased woman, who was not present at the time of the incident, told the police officer that her son had beaten his daughter-in-law and hit her head against the wall after she refused to eat biryani. with him. He also said that his son cleaned the place after the incident.

Adsul was arrested and tried for murder. The prosecution claimed that the accused husband knew that he could be killed for his actions.

However, the defense argued that the defendant should be acquitted as there was no evidence to prove the murder charge against him.

The court observed that “the defendant also destroyed the evidence of the crime, had reason to believe that he killed his wife, and therefore tried to eliminate the evidence of the crime of murder by cleaning the blood stains on the floor with a cloth.” ”.

However, he also observed that there was no direct evidence to show that the accused had killed his wife and that the prosecution’s evidence was based only on the last seen theory and circumstantial evidence.

The court decided that a sudden fight broke out in the heat of the moment and found the defendant guilty of intentional homicide not amounting to murder. Therefore, he convicted him under section 304 (part II) and quashed the charges under section 302 (punishment for murder) of the Indian Penal Code.