The Delhi High Court has upheld life imprisonment awarded to a man by a trial court for setting his wife afire for refusing to give him money to buy liquor, saying their three children had testified that he had killed her.
The High Court Bench said the testimonies of the children were sufficient to hold their father guilty of murdering their mother and it refused to interfere with the trial court’s decision.
“In any event, the three children have clearly spoken about the incident and the role of the appellant [father] and have not been contradicted at all in their cross-examinations. Their testimonies by themselves are sufficient to bring home the guilt of the appellant for the offence with which he was charged. Having carefully examined the entire evidence, this court is not persuaded to come to a conclusion different from that reached by the trial court as far as the guilt of the appellant for the murder of his wife is concerned,” the Bench said. It then dismissed the man’s appeal against his conviction and life imprisonment.
