THANE: A 21-year-old woman accused of killing her husband has been acquitted of murder charges by means of a court docket in Thane.
Principal district judge Virendra G Bisht in his order pronounced closing week seen that the prosecution miserably didn't end up charges beneath IPC Sections 302 (murder) and 201 (inflicting disappearance of evidence of offence) towards the accused - Jehara Mohammed Mehandi Sayyed.
The prosecution advised the court docket that the accused's husband Mohammed Mehandi Sayyed was discovered unconscious at their home in Mumbra township on May 2, 2017 and later died at a hospital.
The deceased's uncle raised suspicion over the instances of his loss of life and approached police.
The police took custody of the body whilst it was being taken for burial, and despatched it for postmortem.
The prosecution advised the court docket that the postmortem file mentioned the cause of loss of life as "compression of neck by ligature material".
The prosecution additional alleged that the spouse of the deceased throttled him with a shawl and threw the fabric in a rubbish bin to purpose disappearance of evidence of the offence.
The judge, on the other hand, seen that there was completely no evidence of any frequent 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 in the chain of instances can't be said to were established, which may result in an inescapable conclusion that the lady killed her husband, the judge noted.
"Therefore, the benefit of doubt that has arisen in the case must go to the accused," he said whilst acquitting the lady.
Principal district judge Virendra G Bisht in his order pronounced closing week seen that the prosecution miserably didn't end up charges beneath IPC Sections 302 (murder) and 201 (inflicting disappearance of evidence of offence) towards the accused - Jehara Mohammed Mehandi Sayyed.
The prosecution advised the court docket that the accused's husband Mohammed Mehandi Sayyed was discovered unconscious at their home in Mumbra township on May 2, 2017 and later died at a hospital.
The deceased's uncle raised suspicion over the instances of his loss of life and approached police.
The police took custody of the body whilst it was being taken for burial, and despatched it for postmortem.
The prosecution advised the court docket that the postmortem file mentioned the cause of loss of life as "compression of neck by ligature material".
The prosecution additional alleged that the spouse of the deceased throttled him with a shawl and threw the fabric in a rubbish bin to purpose disappearance of evidence of the offence.
The judge, on the other hand, seen that there was completely no evidence of any frequent 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 in the chain of instances can't be said to were established, which may result in an inescapable conclusion that the lady killed her husband, the judge noted.
"Therefore, the benefit of doubt that has arisen in the case must go to the accused," he said whilst acquitting the lady.
Thane: Woman let off in husband's murder case
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