Man gets life term for wife's murder

A man who had consumed poison with his wife to seek justice for her alleged gang-rape was Tuesday convicted by a court in Haryana and sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of her murder.

A court in Rohtak town, 250 km from here, sentenced Sunil to life imprisonment after police, which had initially booked him for attempt to commit suicide, charged him with murdering his wife.

Sunil and his wife ate poison outside the office of the Rohtak range inspector general (IG) of police May 2009. They took the step over police failure to act on their complaint that she had been allegedly gang-raped by four people.

After consuming poison, Alka died while Sunil survived. Alka's father later complained to police that Sunil had poisoned her.

Sunil's family alleged police did not present the case properly and did not present even the suicide note written by Alka. He said he will appeal in the Punjab and Haryana high court against the verdict.