Observing that “married women in India are safer on the street than in their matrimonial homes”, the Delhi High Court on Monday upheld the life term awarded to a man convicted of killing his wife with a spade in 2011.
A Division Bench of Justices Pradeep Nandrajog and Mukta Gupta made the observation while dismissing an appeal filed by Pradeep, who was convicted by the trial court for murdering his wife on the ground he was absconding from the crime spot, which was the proof of guilt.
“It is trite that where a wife is murdered in her matrimonial house and the presence of husband is established, law casts an obligation on the husband to explain how his wife died and if he does not do so an adverse inference can be drawn against the husband of being the assailant,” the bench observed.
