The woman was acquitted by the Supreme Court after 22 years in the husband's murder case. The Supreme Court held that not grieving over the death of someone could not be evidence of murder. The court said that the prosecution's case raises doubts. According to the police, the husband was strangled to death and his body was hanged from the ceiling fan to make the case a suicide. The Supreme Court said that we believe that this theory is not right. It is not possible for the accused alone to hang the body from the ceiling fan after strangulation.
Making allegations against the woman, it was also said that the woman's behavior was very normal when her husband's body was found hanging and she was drinking tea with relatives. The Supreme Court said that on the testimony of the woman's sister-in-law, the Punjab-Haryana High Court had sentenced her to life imprisonment, which was not good. However, the postmortem report also found that the case was not of suicide. After this, the woman was sentenced to life imprisonment by the High Court. The incident took place in Panchkula, Haryana in 1997.
The Supreme Court said in its judgment that the woman and her brother were accused in the case that they together killed the woman's husband. The woman was alleged to have a strained relationship with her husband, which led to the murder and was sentenced by the trial court. But the High Court acquitted the woman's brother and sentenced the woman to life imprisonment.
A bench headed by Supreme Court Justice AM Khanwilkar said the fact that the death occurred due to strangulation and the body was hanged from the ceiling fan was revealed. But it does not seem possible to do this work alone. In the circumstances in this case, in which the second accused (woman's brother) has been acquitted from the High Court, there is no reason to argue that the accused hanged the body on the ceiling fan after strangling him alone.
