Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Man sentenced to 7 years for wife’s suicide

19/11/2019, STAFF REPORTER ,COIMBATORE

The Mahila Court here on Monday sentenced a 36-year-old man to seven years imprisonment for abetting wife’s suicide in 2014.

Sessions judge J. Radhika sentenced Walter Vincent of Karunya Nagar to undergo three years of imprisonment for subjecting wife to cruelty under Section 498 A and seven years of imprisonment for abetting her suicide under Section 306 of the IPC. The sentences will run concurrently. As per the charge sheet filed by police, Vincent’s wife committed suicide on June 27, 2014, following physical and mental torture by him. The couple had married in September 2011 and the woman gave birth to a daughter in 2012. Though Vincent had agreed to stay at the house of his wife at Perumpazhuthoor in Thiruvananthapuram, he later moved to Coimbatore and joined as faculty in a university.



The woman was forced to come to Coimbatore along with daughter. The charge sheet said Vincent did not take care of the child and sold 30 sovereigns of jewellery of his wife without her knowledge. Public prosecutor R. Sarojini said the judge imposed a fine of ₹ 2,500 each for the two sentences.

Man arrested

Sulur police on Monday arrested a Madurai native who is believed to have stolen around 150 cars from different States. A. Parameshwaran (39) was arrested by a special team of police from Kangeyampalayam.

Police said the accused had stolen around 150 cars, mainly from Kerala, Andra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Goa. In Tamil Nadu, he had stolen cars from Chennai, Erode, Tiruchi, Thanjavur and Karur.

The man landed in police custody when police were investigating the theft of a van from Sulur 10 days ago.

Police managed to get a surveillance camera visual of the man and identified him. He was traced to Kangeyampalayam along with the van on Monday.

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