Man gets life imprisonment for murdering cousin’s wife

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NEW DELHI: A man, who had stabbed his cousin’s wife in 2006 here due to animosity over a land 

dispute between the two families, has been awarded life term by a Delhi court, which relied on the victim’s ‘dying declaration’ to her husband.

The court also imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 on 34-year-old Ram Ashish, a permanent resident of Munger in Bihar, after holding him guilty of the offence punishable under section 302 (murder) of the IPC.

Additional sessions judge Ashutosh Kumar convicted Ashish while relying on the dying declaration of victim Renu to her husband who had found her with stab injuries at her residence on 25 August, 2006.

Besides the motive and dying declaration, the court said the ‘circumstantial evidence also points towards one fact, that the accused only is guilty’ of causing death of the woman by stabbing her with a sharp edged weapon.

Renu’s husband had in his testimony said that due to partition of land in his native village, 

there was a verbal dual between his family and that of Ashish and the accused had also threatened his 

wife.