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ET Plus Report
Jammu, Mar 9 (JNF):- Principal Sessions Samba Kartar Singh has acquitted Ranjit Singh S/o Balbir Singh and Lachman Dass S/o Tarsem Lal who were facing trial in murder case for the last four years.
On Febr19, 2009 at about 9.30 AM, an information was received from a reliable sources that the dead body of Mst. Kamlo Devi W/o Parkash Chand was lying in bushes near Link road Manhor Gopala. On this information, the Police Post Rakh Amb Talli started proceedings under section 174 Cr.P.C. Principal Sessions Samba Kartar Singh after hearing both the sides observed that It is case of the prosecution that the deceased died because she was strangulated by the accused with a Dupata but this fact did not find any support from any material on record. The post-mortem on the dead body of the deceased was conducted by Dr. Neelam PW-8 who found clotted blood in the nostril of the deceased and no other injury was found on her person. Heart and its contents were sent for histopathological examination. Stomach and its contents, kidney, liver, spleen and lungs were sent for FSL examination but after getting the report of FSL he was unable to give any definite opinion about the cause of death of the deceased. The prosecution has thus failed to prove as to what was the cause of death of the deceased. This is a material circumstance on the evidence of which it cannot be said that the deceased was strangulated to death by the accused because had they done so, there would have been the congestion or ligature marks over the neck of the deceased but it was not detected by the doctor when he conducted the post-mortem on the dead body of the deceased. This is also a material circumstance which renders the prosecution story doubtful. In view of what has been stated above, it is held that the prosecution story is riddled with the material contradictions and is full of embellishments which cannot be believed in order to connect the accused with the commission of alleged offences. The accused have been involved in this case on the statement of Amit Kumar PW-6 who was the first suspect in the eyes of the people regarding murder of the deceased. Such weak type of evidence is not sufficient to warrant conviction of the accused. They are, therefore, acquitted of the charges framed against them. |
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