Cal HC Upholds Life Sentence for Man Who Killed Pregnant Wife, Calls Him "Cold-Blooded Killer"

• Calcutta High Court upheld the life sentence of Ram Chandra Pramanik for killing his pregnant wife, Sampa Pramanik.
• The court noted that Pramanik "took two lives" as his wife was 18 weeks pregnant at the time of the murder on January 21, 2014.
• The division bench, comprising Justice Rajasekhar Mantha and Justice Rai Chattopadhyay, rejected the convict's appeal.
• Sampa Pramanik was killed with a blunt weapon and then strangled, an assault that lasted 20-30 minutes.
• The court affirmed the Howrah sessions court's conviction under Section 302 of the IPC, calling the appellant "reckless and inhuman".