India, Aug. 4 -- Nearly nine years after a woman was fatally stabbed in Pune's red-light area, Budhwar Peth, a sessions court has convicted her live-in partner, holding that the prosecution proved beyond reasonable doubt that he intentionally murdered her after she refused to accompany him.

District judge and additional sessions judge R K Kshirsagar on July 29 convicted Sukhdev Ramdas Madavi, 27, under sections 302 and 504 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC); and sections 37(1) and 135 of the Bombay Police Act. The court sentenced Madavi to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs.50,000 for murder, while awarding concurrent sentences for the remaining offences.

According to the prosecution, the incident took place on the night of May 23, ...