Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 9: Principal Sessions Samba, Kartar Singh has acquitted Ranjit Singh, son of Balbir Singh and Lachman Dass, son of Tarsem Lal, who were facing trial in murder case for the last four years.
According to the police case, these accused persons murdered Kamlo Devi, wife of Parkash Chand on February 19, 2009 and threw her body in the bushes near Link Road Manhor Gopala.
After hearing both sides, Principal Sessions Judge observed, “it is the 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 report, however, didn’t specify any definite opinion about the cause of the death”.
“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”, the Court said, adding “this is also a material circumstance which renders the prosecution story doubtful”.
“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 Court said and accordingly acquitted the accused of the charges framed against them.
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