Govandi man who slashed lover to death gets life term

MUMBAI: A sessions court on Thursday convicted and sentenced a 30-year-old man to life imprisonment for killing his 25-year-old

lover

in a public garden by slashing her throat in 2016. The woman, mother to four kids, had separated from her husband after she got into an affair with the convict, Yasin Shaikh alias Shafiq, their landlord in Govandi.


The police had said that when the victim,

Noorbanu Rahat Ali

, was being taken to hospital after the attack on May 1, 2016, she said that Shafiq assaulted her with a knife. It was alleged that he wanted to end the affair after growing suspicious of her. Noorbanu died a day after the attack.

The cop who spoke to the victim deposed. Her husband too deposed and said they began to live as tenants in the property of the accused after coming from Hyderabad. He said he did not like the accused frequenting his house and despite his opposition, the two met. The man said that soon he moved back with his parents and the victim lived with her family. He said when his wife was killed he was in

Gujarat

. He denied the defence suggestion that he killed his wife over their differences and blamed the accused.