A Delhi courtroom has lately acquitted a person for allegedly stabbing a girl to demise in Delhi’s Amar Colony in 2017. The physique of Pooja — who was killed on March 24, 2017 — was discovered at her Amar Colony residence on March 27 that 12 months, mentioned police.
Ruling out the motive of the homicide to be “stealing”, as revealed throughout investigation earlier, the courtroom identified that “planting of proof by police” might additionally not be dominated out within the case. It underlined that the prosecution’s case was primarily based on circumstantial proof, and that the alleged motive of homicide was on a “weak footing”.
Extra Classes Choose Sachin Sangwan, Saket Court docket, mentioned: “…The info proved in the course of the trial are usually not ample to finish the chain of circumstantial proof in opposition to the accused. Furthermore, even the proved info are usually not absolutely in line with the guilt of the accused, and can’t be mentioned to be completely inconsistent along with his innocence.”
The accused, Mohd Sufiyan, who was in a relationship with a good friend of the 30-year-old deceased, Pooja, allegedly used to go to Pooja’s home along with his girlfriend and keep the night time there. Nevertheless, the 2 ladies had a fallout, forcing Sufiyan to search for one other place to satisfy his girlfriend.
“Police scanned CCTV footage from 12 cameras and zeroed in on a person who took a rickshaw to the sufferer’s home on the day of the incident. Police traced the route taken by him, after killing the lady; they discovered his blood-stained garments in Sarai Kale Khan,” an officer had mentioned earlier.
Later, Sufiyan confessed throughout interrogation that he had “killed Pooja” as a consequence of his monetary misery and following the homicide, he took a rickshaw to Lajpat Nagar’s Central Market to purchase garments — new denims and a T-shirt. He then went to a visitor home in Sarai Kale Khan: he washed the knife used within the crime and his watch, and took a shower and altered his garments. On the best way again, he threw the mentioned knife and watch close to a divider and a bag containing his garments in bushes close to the highway. On checking, police discovered the bag containing a blood-stained shirt and denims, T-shirt, half pants, and two tags of latest garments.
Investigation revealed that the accused used to textual content Pooja on Facebook even after her demise, mentioned police.
The complainant, Gautam Paswan, the husband of Pooja’s elder sister Rekha — had advised police that the couple had a spare key to the sufferer’s home as they used to go to there typically. The duo, on visiting the home of the deceased a number of days after her demise, had used the spare key to unlock the door and located Pooja mendacity lifeless on the ground of her bed room. In April 2017, Rekha had knowledgeable police {that a} gold chain and a hoop her sister used to put on had been lacking, suggesting that the motive behind her homicide may very well be stealing these jewelry.
Ruling out the motive of the homicide to be stealing, the Delhi courtroom mentioned that the jewelry was recovered from the possession of the accused 1.5 months after the offence, suggesting “he was not in determined want of cash”. It was additionally “unimaginable for the accused to journey from Lajpat Nagar to Sarai Kale Khan in simply 12 minutes” — in accordance with his name data, the courtroom mentioned, including that restoration of the blood-stained garments, allegedly worn by the accused in the course of the crime, was “uncertain” as they had been recovered in the identical situation 1.5 months after the offence.
However, the counsel of the accused mentioned that there was a “excessive likelihood” that the complainant and his spouse may very well be behind the homicide, arguing that Pooja’s key has neither been discovered inside the home nor recovered until date.
The courtroom mentioned that the arguments of the protection counsel had been “not with none substance”, flagging that the prosecution selected to not file the CDR/information of Pooja’s cellphone.