Indian woman jailed in Bahrain for brutal murder of husband

Manama : The Supreme Appeals Court has upheld the life imprisonment of a 27-year-old Indian woman convicted of killing her husband by stabbing him 72 times in front of her children.

The woman reportedly murdered her 40-year-old husband after she fell in love with another man living abroad. The forensic doctor’s report showed that the man died from 74 wounds across his body, ranging from human bites to knife injuries.

The woman initially alleged that her husband “took his own life” by stabbing himself in the neck, chest and abdomen because of financial problems. 

However, she was arrested after her five-year-old daughter told the police that her mother was behind the murder. The child said that she saw her mother stabbing her father, adding that they were fighting every day. 

It was said that the man begged his wife during the final minutes of his life, to stop the attack, but she finished him off by sawing his neck.

The Public Prosecutor charged the defendant with premeditated murder based on the daughter’s confession, the forensic doctor’s report and the evidences gathered from the scene, including the knife, which was used to commit the crime.

Ironically, the woman deliberately made some cuts on her body to manipulate police to believe that she had attempted to prevent her husband from committing suicide.  

But the Public Prosecution ruled out her allegations, stating that it was impossible for a human to hurt himself in this manner in order to commit suicide.