Lucknow, Aug. 2 -- The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has upheld the life sentence awarded to a man for strangulating his live-in partner, her mother and her two minor children to death in Hardoi in 2009.

The court found that the prosecution had successfully established the guilt of the accused/appellant beyond doubt and that the prosecution story held a ring of truth.

A division bench of Justice Rajesh Singh Chauhan and Justice Abdhesh Kumar Chaudhary passed the judgment on July 27 on an appeal filed by the convict, Vinay Pratap Singh alias Bablu.

The bench dismissed the criminal appeal filed by Bablu and affirmed the 2014 judgment of the Hardoi trial court, which convicted him under Sections 302, 307 and 404 of the Indian ...