Calcutta High Court upholds murder conviction: The Calcutta High Court recently upheld the life imprisonment of a man for killing a woman with whom he allegedly had an extramarital affair, observing that diary entries about murdering the victim and carrying a knife clearly showed premeditation, thereby ruling out any plea of sudden provocation.

Justices Rajasekhar Mantha and Rai Chattopadhyay noted the accused’s plea that he had suffered enough for 12.5 years over a soured extramarital relationship, but held that this cannot dilute the gravity of a premeditated offence.

“The writings in the diary and the knife that the appellant was carrying clearly indicated a premeditation in causing the death of the victim. It is of no consequence or avail to the appellant that he himself also tried to end his life,” the high court said in its judgment on March 19.

The Calcutta High Court was hearing an appeal challenging the 2019 trial court judgment convicting the accused and sentencing him to life imprisonment for the murder.