25 August,2023 01:27 PM IST | Palghar | mid-day online correspondent
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A court in Maharashtra's Palghar district sentenced a 29-year-old man to rigorous imprisonment for life for strangling his second wife to death, PTI reported.
District and additional sessions judge R D Deshpande on Thursday convicted the accused Suhel Elias Shaikh of charges under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code.
The court sentenced him to rigorous imprisonment for life and imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 on him.
Additional public prosecutor Jaiprakash Patil informed the court that the accused, who was already married, tied a knot with the victim Aysha Suhel Shaikh without informing her about his first wife.
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Shaikh kept refusing to take Aysha to his house despite her family's insistence. He subsequently took her to a lodge in Sasupada in Vasai, where he strangled her to death on September 26, 2018, the prosecution said.
Fifteen prosecution witnesses, including the staff from the lodge and the victim's mother, were examined during the course of the trial, the prosecutor said.
Meanwhile, an offence has been registered against a man for allegedly cheating a deceased police official of Rs 12 lakh in Maharashtra's Thane district, police said on Friday.
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Based on a complaint lodged by a senior inspector's widower, a case under sections 420 (cheating) and 406 (criminal breach of trust) of the Indian Penal Code has been registered against Manohar Deshmukh, a resident of Murbad, an official said.
Senior inspector Usha Suradkar, who succumbed to cancer last year, had bought an agricultural land from Deshmukh in 2016 for Rs 4.5 lakh and had lent him Rs 7.5 lakh for his daughter's wedding, he said.
The alleged accused, however, did not give Suradkar possession of the land and also failed to return the money she lent him, the official said, adding that the accused allegedly took Rs 12 lakh in all from the policewoman between March 2016 and January 2023.
No arrest has been made in this connection and a probe has been initiated, he said.
