Srinagar, June 30 -- Srinagar- A Session court in Anantnag has sentenced a CRPF constable to life imprisonment after convicting him of murdering his wife by strangulation inside their residential quarters at a CRPF camp in 2021.

The Court of the Additional Sessions Judge, Anantnag, convicted Shankara Naik in FIR No. 57/2021 registered at Police Station Anantnag under Section 302 of the IPC.

According to the prosecution, on March 29, 2021, following a domestic quarrel, the accused allegedly strangled his wife, Sama Bhai, with a scarf inside their residential room at the CRPF Camp in Raghunath Mandir, Sheerbagh Anantnag. He subsequently informed his superior officers, following which police registered the case and launched an investigatio...