Muscat: An Indian woman who was jailed last year for killing her alcoholic husband is being sent back home after being released on compassionate grounds, a media report said on Thursday.
The appeals court in Oman’s city of Sur last week had reduced the woman’s term from five-years to six months — which ended on Thursday — as her daughters are minors.
The 40-year-old woman, who worked as a teacher in a school in Sur in northeastern Oman, was arrested after her 49-year-old husband’s unnatural death on October 25 last year, local media reported on Thursday.
“I am not able to express my gratitude in words for the Omani judiciary, social workers and my friends who helped in my troubled time. I thank everyone who helped a lot in my release,” the woman was quoted as saying.
The woman said she was waiting to meet her family and two daughters back home in Pune in Maharashtra state.
The woman’s two daughters, who were sent to India after the crime took place, are with their grandmother in Pune, the report said.
The court took into consideration her current predicament and a mercy petition filed by her children and other family members.
The victim was found dead in the room when police arrived at the scene, an earlier report said.
The teacher had stabbed her husband, who was in a drunken state, following a brawl.
“The victim was an alcoholic. We helped him frequently in reaching home since he used to be excessively drunk. He landed in trouble many times after being caught for drunken driving,” a family friend was quoted as saying in an earlier report.
