A man accused of stabbing to death his niece's husband during a scuffle has been acquitted by a Delhi court on the ground that the "chain of circumstantial evidence is not complete".
Additional Sessions Judge Vimal Kumar Yadav let off Delhi resident Babloo saying "The chain of circumstantial evidence is not complete and unbroken and therefore the doubt and suspicion seeps in making the case of the prosecution vulnerable.
"The possibility of an accused (Babloo) sitting pretty at his house or visiting it within hours of the offence and that too before the people who saw him committing the crime... Is very very remote. Arrest of Babloo is, thus, doubtful from his house."
Babloo was arrested by the police in November 2012 on the complaint lodged by the deceased's wife, who had alleged that her husband was stabbed by the accused during a scuffle over a petty issue outside their house.
She had further told the police that the accused, who is also her uncle, and her husband were having liquor during which a quarrel took place, over which Babloo stabbed her husband with a knife.
The police also said that when the injured was rushed to the nearby hospital, the doctor declared him dead on arrival.
The court, however, did not rely on the police version and said that the circumstances and circumstantial evidence are against the accused as narrated above, but there are certain missing links which makes the case of the prosecution vulnerable and lack of certainty in those circumstances too is present.
