Supreme Court upholds life sentence of man who murdered wife by setting her on fire

The Court was not convinced by the man's argument that he had no intention to kill and that after pouring oil on his wife and starting a fire, he had tried to extinguish the fire by pouring water over her.
Supreme Court of India
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The Supreme Court recently upheld the conviction and life sentence of a man for the murder of his wife by setting her on fire [Naresh v. State of NCT of Delhi].

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