INDIA: SC RESERVES VERDICT ON SHRADHANANDA'S PLEA AGAINST DEATH SENTENCE

the Indian Supreme Court reserved its verdict on a petition filed by Swami Shradhananda, alias Murli Manohar Mishra, challenging his death sentence handed down for burying his wife alive in 1991. A bench comprising Justices B N Agarwal, G S Singhvi and Aftab Alam reserved the verdict after the arguments in the case were concluded. The petitioner was sentenced to death by a trial court in Karnataka and his sentence was confirmed by the state High Court in 2006. The body of his wife, Sakira, was exhumed after three years in 1994 when her daughter took up the case of her murder.