The Patna High Court acquitted Ranjit Mahto, sentenced to life for a 2005 double murder in a bus firing in Begusarai, holding that the sole eyewitness was not wholly reliable, an injured witness and a jail register contradicted her presence, Section 34 IPC could not bridge the gap, and the police investigation was lacking.
The Patna High Court acquitted Rajesh Gupta, sentenced to life for the 2003 kidnapping and murder of a 10-year-old boy in Saharsa, holding that the alleged extra-judicial confession was never put to him under Section 313 CrPC, the last-seen evidence was weak, the motive flimsy, and the Investigating Officer was never examined.
A Thodupuzha Sessions Court has sentenced Rose Mary @ Kuttiyakka to life imprisonment and a fine of Rs 50,000 for the 2014 murder of her newborn son in Marayoor, holding that the act was murder despite any fear of society, and has forwarded the case to the Government under Rule 131 of the Criminal Rules of Practice.
Noting that the accused seen in the video and linked to DNA evidence had already been granted bail, and that the applicant had spent two and a half years in custody with only seven of thirty-one witnesses examined, the Delhi High Court held that his case prima facie stood on a better footing and granted bail despite his having been declared a proclaimed offender.
The Supreme Court declined to restore a murder conviction in an Andhra Pradesh feud killing but faulted the High Court for altering it to culpable homicide on “surmises and conjectures.” New Delhi: The Supreme Court has declined to restore a murder conviction in a decades-old Andhra Pradesh feud killing, but in doing so faulted the […]
