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| DB sets aside life imprisonment of three | | | Jammu, Feb 21: Division Bench of State High Court Comprising Chief Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed and Justice Dhiraj Singh Thakur while deciding 13 years old criminal appeal, set-aside the life-imprisonment and acquitted Ajeet Singh, Jagdish Kour and Prem Singh. As per the prosecution version, material collected during investigation had established the complicity of the appellants in the commission of the murder of the deceased. They were arrested and subjected to interrogation. It was the case of the prosecution that the motive for the crime was that the deceased had illicit relations with appellant Jagdish Kaur, but of late the deceased was attempting to establish illicit relations with the young daughter of Jagdish Kaur which was resented to by the appellants prompting them to engage in a conspiracy to commit the murder of the deceased.
Division Bench after hearing Adv Mandeep Reen for the appellant whereas Sr. AAG SS Nanda appearing for the state observed that It is evident from the above discussion, that there are many missing links and the chain of circumstances which could have connected the appellants with the commission of murder of the deceased Jaspal Singh is far from complete. There is serious doubt with regard to the prosecution case. The benefit of such doubt must, therefore, go to the appellants. With these observations Division Bench allowed the appeal and set-aside the conviction awarded by the Trial Court. |
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