Thane court sentences man to life in jail for killing wife

A 25-year-old Navi Mumbai man has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a local court for killing his wife in 2014.

Thane Principal District Judge V G Bisht Thursday also imposed a fine of Rs 1,000 on Nareshkumar Vishnu Sahu.

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Additional Public Prosecutor Rekha Hirwale said Sahu and his wife Pooja, residents of Nageshwar Shiv Mandir locality in neighbouring Navi Mumbai’s Sanpada area, had frequent quarrels over their one-year-old daughter.

On March 6, 2014, after one such fight, he bludgeoned his wife to death with a hammer and fled with their daughter, the APP said.

He was subsequently arrested.