MOHALI :, March 7 -- A Mohali court has acquitted a Dera Bassi man accused of killing his wife by pouring hot mustard oil on her after the prosecution failed to establish the charge during trial.

The FIR against Angrej Singh, a resident of Gulabgarh in Dera Bassi, was registered under Sections 308 (attempt to commit culpable homicide) and 302 (murder) of the IPC after his wife Rani suffered burn injuries in their rented house on February 26, 2021. According to the police, the victim's statement was recorded in which she accused her husband of throwing hot mustard oil on her face and chest following a domestic dispute.

She was initially taken to the civil hospital in Dera Bassi and later shifted to the Government Medical College and Hosp...