lawyers’ ‘no science’ knowledge worries HC
The public prosecutors lack basic knowledge of science, the Delhi high court has said while expressing its concern for disregarding a dying declaration of a victim, who alleged that she was burnt to death when the accused aimed a running gas pipe towards her after removing it from the stove.
While allowing the bail plea of the accused, Ram Babu, arrested for allegedly burning his daughter-in-law to death, Justice S.N. Dhingra, said, “It is unfortunate that the public prosecutors and the investigators do not have proper understanding of science.”
The court referred to the lack of proper understanding of science after investigating agency did not realise that no person could be set on fire by pointing a gas pipeline after removing it from burner.
“I can teach you law, but not Science,” the court said exasperatedly after a public prosecutor insisted that the victim had claimed in her dying declaration that she was set afire by using a gas pipeline.
The court said, “Any person holding a gas pipe if tries to lit a match stick, the gas will catch fire instantly and spread in the entire room and the person trying to burn other will also have to burn himself.”
It further added the person (Accused) can save himself only if he is protected by fire resistant clothes. It is not the case of the prosecution that any other person got burnt in this incident of burning of the deceased because of cooking gas.
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