HC upholds conviction of murder accused
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Madurai:4.11.2019
The Madras high court has upheld the conviction and sentence awarded by a lower court to an accused who had murdered his wife at Tuticorin in 2008.
According to the prosecution, the appellant Manthiramoorthy was married in 2007 and used to frequently pick fights with his wife (the deceased) after getting drunk. On April 5, 2008, he strangulated his wife with her saree and attacked her with a kitchen knife, causing her death.
Following this, police registered a murder case and arrested him. The Tuticorin additional sessions court/ fast track court I in an order on May 7, 2009, convicted the appellant and sentenced him to undergo life imprisonment.
The appellant then moved the Madurai bench of Madras high court in 2017, seeking relief from the order of the lower court.
His counsel submitted that the prosecution’s case is based on circumstantial evidence and the chain of circumstances has not been proved.
While confirming and upholding the order of the lower court, a division bench of Justices S Vaidyanathan and N Anand Venkatesh observed,“The appellant attacked the deceased in a grotesque manner. The conduct of the appellant... does not give any ground to modify his sentence.”
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Madurai:4.11.2019
The Madras high court has upheld the conviction and sentence awarded by a lower court to an accused who had murdered his wife at Tuticorin in 2008.
According to the prosecution, the appellant Manthiramoorthy was married in 2007 and used to frequently pick fights with his wife (the deceased) after getting drunk. On April 5, 2008, he strangulated his wife with her saree and attacked her with a kitchen knife, causing her death.
Following this, police registered a murder case and arrested him. The Tuticorin additional sessions court/ fast track court I in an order on May 7, 2009, convicted the appellant and sentenced him to undergo life imprisonment.
The appellant then moved the Madurai bench of Madras high court in 2017, seeking relief from the order of the lower court.
His counsel submitted that the prosecution’s case is based on circumstantial evidence and the chain of circumstances has not been proved.
While confirming and upholding the order of the lower court, a division bench of Justices S Vaidyanathan and N Anand Venkatesh observed,“The appellant attacked the deceased in a grotesque manner. The conduct of the appellant... does not give any ground to modify his sentence.”
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