CUTTACK: Greater than 17 years after a 25-year-old girl walked right into a police station in Odisha’s Sundargarh district and confessed to killing her husband, the Orissa excessive courtroom has overturned the life sentence awarded to her, saying the trial courtroom verdict was primarily based on “surmises and conjectures”, and was a “miscarriage of justice“.
Laulina Achariya of Barupoda, who’s now 42, turned up at Sundargarh city police station on Could 28, 2007, claiming to have murdered her husband, Surendra Bag, 31.
Police went to her residence and located Surendra mendacity in a room, lined with a blanket as much as his chest. There was blood in all places and an axe was seized from the spot.
A homicide case was registered, and Laulina was later placed on trial. On July 3, 2009, the Sundargarh periods courtroom awarded her a life time period in jail. Laulina, who was on bail since 2014, challenged the decision within the HC.
Setting apart the trial courtroom verdict on Oct 9, a division bench of justices Debabrata Sprint and V Narasingh acquitted Laulina, observing that the conviction and sentencing have been “not primarily based on simply and correct evaluation of the proof”.
“This courtroom is constrained to watch that the case at hand is a obvious occasion of miscarriage of justice the place the accused has been fixed with guilt on preponderance of chance,” the bench mentioned.
Whereas there was no eyewitness to the crime, the courtroom noticed that the prosecution had not been in a position to set up “the final seen idea past affordable doubt”.
