Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 21: In the much publicized Jagti migrant murder case, Principal Sessions Judge Jammu, Sanjay Gupta has acquitted all the five accused namely Sunit Singh, Naresh Sharma, Gourav Partap Singh, Chankar Singh and Uttam Singh as eye-witnesses turned hostile.
After hearing Senior Advocate BS Salathia with Advocate Bhanu Salathia and Advocate Ajay Vaid appearing for the accused persons, Principal Sessions Judge observed, “in appreciating the evidence against the accused persons, evidence of prosecution should be legally admissible and witnesses should be credible and should not have an interest in implicating the accused falsely”.
“When the prosecution does not come out with, whole unwarranted truth, then court has to appreciate the veracity of witnesses not solely from their individual statement but put their testimony taken in conjunction with all other facts and circumstances brought out during the trial”, the court said, adding “in arriving at conclusion about the guilt of the accused charged with heinous crime, court has to judge the evidence by yardsticks of probabilities”.
“Every case has its own facts and law does not permit the court to punish the accused on basis of moral conviction or suspicion”, the court said, adding “in the present case neither motive has been proved and nor it has proved that accused were perpetrator of crime. Moreover eye-witnesses have tuned hostile”.
With these observations, court acquitted all the accused by giving them benefit of doubt.
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