Wife's request to wait for food not grave provocation: Orissa High Court finds man guilty of murder

"A housewife cannot be said to have caused grave and sudden provocation to her hungry husband when she requests her to wait for a while as the preparation of food is under process," the Court said.
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The Orissa High Court recently upheld the murder conviction of a man who attacked his wife with a katuri (chopping knife), leading to her death, after she requested him to wait for a while to be served food [Raikishore Jena v. State of Odisha].

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