Tandoor killer's sentence upheld

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/south_asia/6374903.stm

Version 0 of 1.

The high court in India's capital Delhi has upheld the death sentence for a former politician who shot his wife and burned her body in a restaurant oven.

Police retrieved charred body parts from the oven of the Delhi restaurant. The crime, which took place in July 1995, shocked India.

In 2003, a lower court convicted Sushil Sharma of murdering Naina Sahni, whom he suspected of infidelity,

It is expected that he will now take his appeal to the Supreme Court.

'No repentance'

The two high court judges said he had shown no remorse.

The murder of Naina Sahni shocked the nation

"He has shown no sign of repentance. He has shocked the judicial conscience by showing no respect for the body," the judges said while rejecting his appeal.

During the trial, the court was told that Sharma shot his wife after suspecting her of having an affair and then cut the body up into pieces.

He took the body to the upmarket Baghiya restaurant and put it into the clay oven, or tandoor.

Police raided the restaurant after a tip-off.

Sharma, who headed the youth wing of the Congress party, was arrested in the southern city of Bangalore a few days after the murder.

Death sentences are awarded in the "rarest of rare" cases in India and they are rarely carried out.