MP high court rejects appeal of chemistry professor jailed for killing husband by electrocution

BHOPAL: The MP high court turned down the appeal of a woman chemistry professor sentenced to life by a sessions court for killing her husband by electrocution. A video of court proceedings during hearing of her appeal by a division bench of MP high court had gone viral in which she was arguing her own case and trying to drive home her contention that thermal and burn marks can't be differentiated in post mortem and it can only be done through chemical analysis, therefore the post mortem report of her husband that he died due to electrocution was not reliable. When one of the judges asks her "If she is a professor of chemistry", she nods and says "Yes". Following hearing her arguments on April 28, 2025, the court had suspended her sentence while reserving its judgement but in the final judgement, the judges lifted the suspension and asked professor Mamta Pathak to surrender in the trial court to undergo the remainder of her sentence. The court, while upholding the trial court order said that chain of events on the day of the incident in 2021, it's clear that nobody visited the couple and it was Mamta who administered some intoxicant to her husband Dr Neeraj Pathak and electrocuted him when he was unconscious.