A 30-year-old woman has been sentenced to 30 years imprisonment by a court in Jhajjar town in Haryana.

The woman brutally murdered her husband when she cut the man she married in eight pieces.

Additional Sessions Judge HS Dahiya sentenced 30-year-old Puja for murdering 38-year-old Baljeet. Puja murdered Baljeet in April 2016 in Asanda village in Jhajjar district.

However, there were four other people who were also named in the case have been acquitted. The court said that only Puja was responsible for the gruesome murder of her husband, according to an NDTV report.

The investigation by police unraveled that Puja had an extramarital affair with another man and Baljeet was murdered because Puja wanted him out of her way and her new-found love in another man.

BALJEET WENT MISSING

Baljeet's brother Kuljeet had filed a complaint with the police on April 26 in 2016 that his brother has gone missing.

According to Kuljeet, when he and his sisters went to Baljeet's place, Puja could not provide satisfactory answers on Baljeet's whereabouts.

Soon the sisters could feel some foul odour which was coming from another room. Upon inspection, they found the stench was coming from a suitcase kept in the room.

When the suitcase was opened, they gasped in horror as they found Baljeet's headless body there.

Soon they found out that Puja had cut her husband's body into eight pieces which were hidden at different places in the house.

JUDGEMENT

The court on Tuesday held Puja guilty of savagely murdering Baljeet. Puja was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment.