Woman sent to jail for torturing hubby for 14 yrs

AGARTALA: A local court in Tripura on Monday sentenced a woman to one-year imprisonment for torturing her husband for 14 long years, police said. However, judge Sarmistha Mukherjee, under the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958, allowed the woman to stay outside the jail as she has a minor daughter and is a government employee. The victim had filed a case at the local police station in August 2009. The court, after conducting the trial, gave the judgment on Monday. In another curious case, local family court judge Datamohan Jamatia, considering the appeal of two children, on Monday rejected a divorce petition filed by a man. The petitioner allegedly had been torturing his wife and children for having prevented him from marrying another woman.