A fast-track court in Muzaffarnagar on Tuesday convicted a man and sentenced him to 10 years' rigorous imprisonment for killing his wife over dowry demand while falsely showing her death as due to coronavirus.
Judge Nishant Singla awarded 10-year imprisonment to Aas Mohammad and also imposed a fine of Rs 56,000 on him.
The court, however, acquitted Mohammad's mother, Shamima, and his brother, Insaf, citing a lack of evidence.
Government counsel Amit Kumar Tyagi told PTI that the victim, Tabassum, aged about 25 years, was strangled to death at her in-laws' home in Shikarpur village under Bhorakala police station on June 6, 2020.
Her body was buried without informing the police, with the family falsely claiming she had died of COVID-19.
During the investigation, the police exhumed the body from a local graveyard. A post-mortem confirmed death by strangulation, leading to the conviction.
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