India, Nov. 11 -- Naresh Bhatt, on November 10, was found guilty of murdering his wife Mamta Kafle. Jurors in Virginia found him guilty of first-degree murder though Bhatt had claimed his wife died by suicide, even after he admitted on stand that he'd dismembered her body.

Bhatt was also found guilty of defiling and concealing Kafle's body, NBC Washington reported. The verdict which came on Tuesday followed six weeks of testimony from several witnesses. Ahead of the jury deliberation, a legal expert had noted that they would either swing towards a first-degree charge or towards an acquittal, after it was reported that jurors had been instructed to consider a second-degree charge as well.

During closing arguments, prosecution told the ju...