4 walk free in culpable homicide case

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 24

A local court on Tuesday acquitted four persons in a case of culpable homicide not amounting to murder due to lack of evidence.

In 2014, a gardener had died after being electrocuted and four persons were booked under Sections 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 201 (Causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code.

The four were Sanjay Shamaz (40), Rajender (30), Mukesh (19) and Mohammad Wahid (40). As per the FIR in the case, on September 21, 2014, the police had received information that a dead body was lying in an empty plot in Sector 37-A. The body could not be identified and was taken to the GMSH-16 and was kept in the mortuary.

During investigation, the police found that construction work was going on at a house near the empty plot from where the body was found and a man had been electrocuted there. After the police interrogated a construction worker there, it was discovered that on September 19, a labourer, Suresh Bhola, had died after electrocution.

The four accused had taken the body on a scooter and two days later the body was found. The four were thus arrested by the police.

As per the defence counsel, the police had no evidence against the four and the cause of death as per the post-mortem report was electrocution. Also, the prosecution could not prove the role of accused in the death of Bhola.