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| Court acquits man from charges of killing daughter-in-law | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 1 : Principal sessions judge Jang Bahadur Singh Jamwal has acquitted Girdhari Lal, son of Punnu Ram of Chakroi, R S Pura, who was facing trial for allegedly murdering his daughter-in-law and injuring his son as prosecution failed to prove the case against the accused.
On August 3, 2008, police received information that one Dev Raj had been admitted in GMCH here in an injured condition. Police reached the hospital. In his statement, he alleged that his father had killed his wife Rita Devi and injured him. Girdhari needed money and he asked Dev to pay it to him but he refused. The former then asked him to arrange his own house.
On August 2, 2008, after having his dinner, Dev went to the rooftop of his house but Rita slept in her room. At midnight, he heard the screams of his wife. He immediately came down and saw his father coming out of the room with an axe in his hand.
When he enquired from him what had happened, his father inflicted murderous blow on him too. When he raised alarm, their neighbours assembled there but his father ran away from the spot. When he entered the room, he found his wife lying dead in a pool of blood. Cops of Chakroi police post later evacuated him and his wife to the hospital where the latter was pronounced brought dead.
The judge, while acquitting the accused, observed that since Dev was the star witness, it was expected from him to support the prosecution version but his declining to support the prosecution version had tarnished the case.
Shanti Devi, mother-in-law of the deceased, also declined to support the prosecution version. The prosecution had failed to produce other witnesses of disclosure statement as well as the seizure memo. It had also failed to procure their evidence rendering the disclosure statement inadmissible in evidence.
The investigating officer, though had been examined by the prosecution he was not eyewitness. None of the eyewitness had supported the prosecution version. Accordingly, the IO's statement also becomes insignificance, does not inspire confidence and is not relied upon. With these observations, the court acquitted the accused from the charges levelled against him.--JNF |
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