Man guilty on wife’s testimony
A Delhi court convicted a man for attempt to murder relying on the testimony of his wife. However, the court discharged him of the charges of murder as the prosecution could not establish whether the death of the victim occurred due to injuries sustained during the assault. The victim had died nearly 15 days after the assault in July 2007.
In a recent order, district judge S.K. Sarvaria, while convicting and awarding the accused Sanjeev Kumar also slapped a fine of `2,000 on him. The court said that his wife, Hema, had given a statement against him in connection with assault on her brother Nanak Chand.
However, the court said that though the prosecution has proved that the accused attempted to commit murder of Nanak by inflicting injuries on his neck and chest. But it failed to prove that his death was a natural consequence of the injuries, the court said. It further said that a direct nexus between death of the victim and the injuries inflicted upon him in the assault is not clearly established by medical evidence.
In her testimony before the court, Hema had said that on July 5, 2007, Sanjeev Kumar had a heated argument with her over not returning `2,000 to him. When Nanak intervened, Kumar attacked him with a broken cold drink bottle. Nanak was taken to a hospital where he died on July 21.
Earlier, Kumar, who also had 18 criminal cases registered against him, had argued that he was being implicated in the case by his wife, in connivance with her brother, as he was having strained relations with her.
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