Bengaluru man gets lifer for killing wife in acid attack
Bengaluru, July 30: A Sessions Court in Bengaluru has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for murdering his wife who succumbed to his acid attack.
Chennegowda "suspected his wife's fidelity as she was beautiful" and poured acid on her to disfigure her, news agency PTI reported.
The couple was married in 1996.
Manjula
succumbed
to
her
injuries
on
September
29,
2017,
two
months
after
the
acid
attack.
The
case
was
registered
in
the
Kempegowda
Nagar
police
station.
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The XXXXVI City Civil and Sessions Judge Manjunath found Chennegowda guilty of murder, acid attack and subjecting his wife to cruelty.
He was sentenced to life for murder and ten years imprisonment for acid attack and two years for cruelty.