Thane: Woman let off in husband's murder case, gets benefit of doubt

THANE: A 21-year-old girl accused of killing her husband has been acquitted of murder fees via a courtroom in Thane.

Principal district pass judgement on Virendra G Bisht in his order pronounced closing week observed that the prosecution miserably did not turn out fees underneath IPC Sections 302 (murder) and 201 (inflicting disappearance of evidence of offence) in opposition to the accused - Jehara Mohammed Mehandi Sayyed.

The prosecution told the courtroom that the accused's husband Mohammed Mehandi Sayyed was discovered unconscious at their house in Mumbra township on May 2, 2017 and later died at a health facility.

The deceased's uncle raised suspicion over the cases of his demise and approached police.

The police took custody of the frame while it was being taken for burial, and sent it for postmortem.

The prosecution told the courtroom that the postmortem report mentioned the reason for demise as "compression of neck by ligature material".

The prosecution further alleged that the spouse of the deceased throttled him with a shawl and threw the cloth in a garbage bin to motive disappearance of evidence of the offence.

The pass judgement on, on the other hand, observed that there was absolutely no evidence of any widespread arguments or behavioural dissensions between the couple.

"It is also not the case of prosecution that their matrimonial relation had reached such a nadir that anything untoward could have happened. Suffice to say, the prosecution has not been able to establish firmly the motive behind the offence," he said.

The hyperlinks within the chain of cases can't be said to were established, which may lead to an inescapable conclusion that the woman killed her husband, the pass judgement on famous.

"Therefore, the benefit of doubt that has arisen in the case must go to the accused," he said while acquitting the woman.