PRAYAGRAJ: Allahabad high court has convicted an elderly man and an accomplice of strangling his wife to death in 1982 under the pretext of “driving out a ghost”, calling it a shocking case of blind faith used as a cover for murder . After a 43-year-long legal battle, a division bench of Justices Rajiv Gupta and Harvir Singh sentenced Awadhesh Kumar, 71, and co-accused Mata Prasad to life imprisonment, overturning a 1984 trial court acquittal. High court calls wife’s killing ‘classic case of blind faith’ The court also handed them three-year sentences under IPC Section 201 for destroying evidence, saying both terms would run concurrently. Two other accused died while the appeal filed by UP govt was pending. Prosecutors said Kumar killed his 23-year-old wife Kusuma Devi on Aug

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