India, Sept. 9 -- Nashik resident Sampat Tongare, who was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2017 for murdering his wife, was recently acquitted by the Bombay High Court. The circumstantial evidence placed on record by the prosecution was not enough to prove Tongare's guilt and he "deserves to be acquitted", a bench of justices Sarang Kotwal and Advait Sethna said.

"....these circumstances cannot form a complete chain of circumstances pointing unerringly only to the hypothesis of the guilt of the appellant (Tongare)," the bench held on August 22, ordering Tongare's release from prison after eight years behind bars.

Tongare was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering his wife by the sessions court in 2017. His defence w...