The Madhya Pradesh High Court upheld the life sentence of Mamta Pathak, a former chemistry professor, for electrocuting her husband, a government doctor, in 2021. Pathak, 60, argued her own appeal, challenging the postmortem report and asserting that thermal and electrical burn marks are indistinguishable without chemical analysis.
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