Won't cremate his body before Eshwarappa's arrest: Santosh Patil's family
Belagavi: Hours after Santosh Patil was found dead in a hotel room in Udupi with a death note blaming Eshwarappa for his death, Patil’s brother Prashanth, has said that his family will not conduct funeral rites of the deceased before Eshwarappa’s arrest.
Prashanth while speaking to reporters outside Camp Police Station in the city, alleged Eshwarappa was lying about not knowing Patil and that the two were good friends.
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“He had borrowed over Rs. 4 crores from lenders to complete the construction work on the orders of the minister. But the minister never paid him the amount and he was being pressured by the lenders. He should get justice now. We urge CM Bommai and BS Yediyurappa to give us justice,” he told reporters.
“He has a one-year-old son and a wife. We will not conduct his funeral rites before Eshwarappa is arrested,” he added.
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UP man gets life term for electrocuting mentally challenged wife to death in Bareilly
Bareilly (UP) (PTI): A local court here has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for murdering his mentally challenged wife by repeatedly electrocuting her while she was tied to a cot, lawyers said on Thursday.
Additional district government counsel Harendra Singh Rathore said Additional Sessions Judge Avinash Kumar Singh on Wednesday convicted Vinod Kumar (45) for killing his wife, Satyavati, in Chaina village of Bareilly district and imposed a fine of Rs 15,000 on him.
According to the prosecution, he was allegedly frustrated with his wife Satyavati's mental illness and often assaulted her.
Rathore said the prosecution examined nine witnesses to establish the charges against him.
As per court records, on the night of May 1-2, 2022, when Satyavati was asleep, Vinod tied her hands and legs to a cot using ropes and then connected an aluminium cable to an electric board to repeatedly administer electric shocks to her.
"She writhed in pain, but the accused continued to electrocute her until she died," the prosecution said.
The court observed that the murder was carried out in an inhuman manner.
After committing the crime, the accused threw the rope and cable on the roof and left for work at a brick kiln around 2 am to create a false alibi.
He later tried to mislead the police and the victim's family by claiming that Satyavati, whose mental condition was unstable, had accidentally died by suicide after grabbing a live electric wire.
However, the victim's brother, Sanjeev, a resident of Shahjahanpur district, suspected foul play and lodged an FIR under sections 498A (husband subjecting wife to cruelty) and 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code at Nawabganj police station.
During the trial, the prosecution relied on the post-mortem report prepared by Dr Faraz Anwar, who stated that multiple electrocution marks found on different parts of the victim's body could not have been self-inflicted.
The police also recovered the rope and electric wire used in the crime on the accused's identification, officials said.
