Nainital: The Uttarakhand High Court has granted short term bail to a man, who is serving life sentence for killing his wife and chopping her body into 72 pieces in 2010.

A division bench of the high court comprising senior Justice Sanjay Kumar Mishra and Justice Alok Kumar Verma granted bail to Rajesh Gulati on Monday for 45 days on health grounds.

The next hearing in the case has been fixed for 15 September. The short term bail application was filed by Gulati claiming that he needs to undergo a surgery.

Gulati had been sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering his wife Anupama on 17 October 2010.

The murder came to light on 12 December 2010 when Anupama’s brother came to Dehradun from Delhi looking for his sister.