A Dubai court has upheld the three year sentence of a 33-year-old Indian shopkeeper for strangulating his wife on suspicion of extra martial affair.
The Dubai Appeal Court yesterday upheld the judgement of the Indian identified as S S to three-year imprisonment after it rejected prosecutors appeal to stiffen the punishment, the Gulf News reported.
The man had a heated argument with his wife over her alleged extra marital affair with another man. He killed her at their residence in Bur Dubai and surrendered to the police in August last year.
The Dubai Court of First Instance in July had sentenced the defendant to three years in jail followed by deportation. He was also fined 3,000 Dirhams for consuming alcohol, the report said.
Prosecutors appealed the primary ruling and sought a tougher punishment.
The man had entered a not guilty plea and denied any intention of killing his wife.
