DB set-aside life-imprisonment of husband for wife's murder

A Division Bench of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court Comprising Justice Sindhu Sharma and Justice Shahzad Azeem set-aside life-imprisonment of one Maan Chand who was convicted by the Trial Court for murdering his wife Kanta Devi on suspicious that in his absence, deceased had developed extra-marital relations.

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The accused alleged to have also warned and counselled the deceased, but the deceased did not mend her ways. Division Bench after hearing both the sides observed that In the wake of above discussed contra-dictions, improbabilities, discrepancies, improvements, conflicting opinion of the experts, etc, the jus-tification of the trial Court that the testimony of PW-1 Des Raj is of sterling nature do not inspire confi-dence, as it loses sheen and withers away and is over-shadowed by doubt and consequently, also renders the prosecution case unworthy of reliance. DB arrived at the