Shillong, Aug. 5 -- The Meghalaya high court acquitted a woman who was serving a life sentence for allegedly murdering her husband in 2015, ruling that the prosecution failed to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt.

A division bench comprising Chief Justice Revati Mohite Dere and Justice W Diengdoh set aside the conviction of Jenorin D Sangma, holding that the case rested entirely on circumstantial evidence but failed to satisfy the stringent legal standards required for conviction.

"The prosecution has failed to prove that the circumstances unequivocally point to the guilt of the appellant. Neither is the chain of evidence complete to show that, in all human probability, it is the appellant and the appellant alone who is the perpetra...