New Delhi, Nov 14 (PTI) The Delhi High Court on Friday upheld the conviction of a woman’s husband and son for setting her on fire, leading to her death.

While the woman’s husband died during the pendency of the appeal, her son has been absconding.

A bench of Justices Subramonium Prasad and Vimal Kumar Yadav dismissed the appeal of the two men challenging their conviction in the murder case and said all the evidence, coupled with the woman’s dying declaration, makes a foolproof case against her husband Didar Singh and son Maan Singh.

The sentence of the two convicts is not known. The offence of murder is punishable with a minimum of life imprisonment and a maximum of the death penalty.

The high court, at the beginning of its verdict, observed: “A mother is the only person who carries yo

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