Four of family acquitted

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 7

A local court has acquitted four members of a family in a case of voluntary causing hurt to three members of a family of Sector 56, Chandigarh.

According to the prosecution, a case under Sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 325 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt) and 34 of the IPC was registered against four persons Rajesh, his father Pala, wife Saroj and his son at the Sector 39 police station on the complaint of Surajpal, a resident of Sector 56, on January 6, 2015.

In his complaint, Surajpal stated that he stays in Sector 56 and works as a fruit and vegetable seller. Around 8 pm on December 21, 2014, he closed his shop, collected money and left for home in an auto-rickshaw along with his wife and brother.

He stated that when he reached outside his house, four persons attacked them with knives and rods and snatched Rs 22,000 and a gold chain. He said they even attacked his daughter, who was inside the house. They called the police which took them to the Government Multi-Specialty Hospital (GMSH), Sector 16.

During the trial, defence counsel Amarjeet Singh Sidhu said the four persons were falsely implicated in the case. He said there was a delay in registering the FIR as the alleged incident took place on December 21, 2014, but the FIR was registered on January 6, 2015. The victims had also claimed that they were beaten by rods and knives, but the police could not recover any weapon, he argued.

The counsel argued that the complainant had alleged that his wife and daughter were also attacked. But the medical record shows no injury marks to his wife and the daughter’s medical was never done.

The court of Additional District and Sessions Judge acquitted the four persons of the charges as the prosecution could not prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt.