Husband Found Guilty of Killing Wife After 43 Years: Allahabad High Court

In a major verdict under the Indian Penal Code, the Allahabad High Court has convicted two men — Awadhesh Kumar and Mata Prasad — for the murder of Kusuma Devi, 43 years after the incident took place in 1982. The conviction comes after the Court allowed a government appeal against the trial court’s 1984 judgment that had acquitted the accused. Background of the case and cause of the crime The…