Mariticide: Court ruling on June 10

Manama

A much-awaited court ruling will be delivered on June 10 in the trial of  a 27-year-old Indian woman accused of killing her husband by stabbing him 72 times. 

The woman reportedly decided to murder her 40-year-old husband after she fell in love with another man living abroad.   

The coroner’s report showed that the man died of 74 wounds across his body, including stab injuries and bites.

The woman told prosecutors that her husband ‘took his own life’ because of financial problems. 

However, she was arrested after her 5-year-old daughter told police her mother was behind the murder. 

The child said she saw her mother stabbing her father, adding that they were fighting everyday. 

The Public Prosecutor charged the accused with premeditated murder based on the daughter’s confession, the coroner’s report and the evidence gathered from the scene. 

It’s said the woman deliberately injured herself to make police believe that she tried to prevent her husband from committing suicide.  

But the Public Prosecution ruled out her claim, stating it was impossible for a person to hurt himself in this manner to take his own life.  

The woman would be sentenced to death penalty or life imprisonment if found guilty.