NEW DELHI: A Delhi court recently framed charges against a man for the murder of a woman in 2014.
The man is accused of slitting the minor’s throat while his accomplice, a juvenile, recorded a video of the murder.
Mentioning the video as evidence and the postmortem report, the court of Additional Sessions Judge Amit Sahrawat said these conclusively proved that the murder was committed.
“During final arguments, the accused was physically produced from the JC and the relevant video was also played in the court and this court is of considered opinion that the person visible in said video is the accused of present case and not any other person. There is no doubt in saying that the person visible in said video is accused only and not any other person,” the court noted.
The court was hearing the case against one Karan Singh, a resident of Mahendra Park area accused of murdering his minor neighbour. However, during the course of hearing it was proved that the girl was not a minor.
In his disclosure statement, Singh said that he was in relationship with the woman but she did not have him attention after few years. Jealous over het friendship with other people, he planned her murder with a juvenile boy.
They both lured her to a secluded spot in Khampur Radio Station near Narela where he slit her throat. The act was recorded by the juvenile on a mobile phone which was later discovered by police.
Special Public Prosecutor Sandeep Kaur submitted that it is a case in which there are direct as well as circumstantial evidences against accused.
She also submitted that the dead body was recovered from a secluded place which was not in the reach of normal persons and thus the recovery of dead body was effected only at the instance of accused.
The video clearly shows that accused was committing the murder and that is why deceased’s blood was found on the sweater of accused, and due to this reason only the soil of spot was found on the clothes and shoes of accused, said the court.
The court noted that the accused has intentionally caused disappearance of evidence with the motive to save himself from punishment.
Total 42 witnesses were examined during the trial.
“The visual part of the said video has been duly proved by the prosecution and the identity of accused in the said video has also been duly proved beyond any reasonable doubt,” the court concluded.
