Murder accused acquitted on account of lack of proof

By Express News Service
JAGATSINGHPUR: As many as 10 individuals, accused of killing an evening watchman posted on the workplace of Rural Development division divisional workplace right here, had been acquitted by District and Sessions Judge Anand Charan Behera on account of inadequate proof. 

The sufferer, Somnath Das of Chatara village, was gunned down by unidentified miscreants from shut vary on May 24, 2015 on the premises of the workplace. The homicide was apparently associated to tender fixing and extortion. Das had invited the wrath of the assailants as he had thwarted their extortion bids on a number of events. 

There was no eyewitness to the homicide because it occurred throughout wee hours. Jagatsinghpur police had registered a case and arrested 10 individuals for his or her alleged involvement within the case. During trial, 31 witnesses had been examined. Judge Behera noticed that prosecution had ‘miserably failed’ to ascertain witness within the case.