The bench led by Justice Revati Mohite Dere noted that the appellant assaulted the deceased after hours of their fight and when the deceased was sleeping.
A bench of Justices AS Gadkari and Milind Jadhav set aside the conviction of the duo for murder and instead convicted them for culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday reduced the life sentence of a man convicted for murdering his wife to ten years observing that the act was a result of provocation which left his "pride wounded".
The Bombay High Court recently commuted the sentence of a man convicted of murder and sentenced to undergo life imprisonment for killing his wife in August 2009.