‘Classic case of blind faith’: HC jails man for killing wife; nixes his 1984 acquittal

After a 43-year legal battle, the Allahabad High Court convicted an elderly man and an accomplice for strangling his wife in 1982. Overturning a 1984 acquittal, Awadhesh Kumar and Mata Prasad received life imprisonment for murder, masked as a ghost exorcism. The court condemned this shocking case of blind faith, also imposing fines and three-year sentences for destroying evidence.