Court acquits woman, her alleged lover of killing her husband

Additional Sessions Judge Virender Bhat freed Chattisgarh native Lalita and her alleged lover Amresh of Bihar saying the prosecution has not been able to prove that they killed the woman's 40-year-old husband.

"The main pillar of prosecution case falls to the ground. There is no evidence on record to suggest that there was any illicit relation between accused Amresh and Lalita or that the deceased Pardeshi (husband) was in the company of accused Amresh soon before he was killed," the court said.

The prosecution case dated back to January 19, 2011, when Pardeshi's body was recovered from a ditch at a PWD building site within a government school premises at Inderpuri in West Delhi, where the deceased worked as a guard.

The school's principal had informed the police about the body lying in a ditch in school premises .

The police arrested Lalita and Amresh on one Raju's statement that he had seen the duo together shortly before the incident and that they had told him that they would soon elope together.

The police also claimed the accused themselves had disclosed that while working together at various construction sites, they had fallen in love with each other and had developed physical intimacy.

"They wanted to marry each other therefore eliminated Pardeshi pursuant to a well-hatched plan," the police claimed.

But the court acquitted them because Raju turned hostile. (More)