US authorities have arrested Telangana-born software engineer Avinash Narne for the alleged murder of his wife, Raajitha Sabbineni, in Washington. Prosecutors claim he strangled her and staged the death as suicide. The case was reclassified as homicide following the autopsy findings.
The Supreme Court reduced the sentence of an 80-year-old accused in a 1992 homicide case to the period already undergone, citing his advanced age and long lapse of time. The Court held that sending an elderly person back to prison at this stage would be harsh, stressing that “courts are not supposed to be insensitive.”
