DARA TO MOVE SC FOR FULL ACQUITTAL Source: Dara Singh, the main accused in Staines murder case, on Thursday said he would move the Supreme Court for a full acquittal. Reacting to this, CBI counsel Suryakanta Padhi said, "A decision on moving SC would be taken at the appropriate level." Elaborating on the order, the court said, "The eyewitnesses never attributed any particular fatal injury to appellant Dara Singh for which he can be individually held responsible for the death of the three deceased persons or for the death of any of them. Evidence against all the participants - including Dara Singh - being of identical nature, they were all equally responsible for the three murders.
Therefore, no justification is available from the evidence on record to single out Dara Singh for convicting him under Section 302 IPC... the sentence of death thereunder cannot be sustained and must be set aside." The court added that convictions and sentences of the remaining 11 appellants "cannot be sustained as there is no reliable evidence on record as regards their identification." http://www.nalsartech.org/tikiwiki/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=4570 Comment on this article ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Frederick Noronha 784 Near Convent, Sonarbhat SALIGAO GOA India Freelance Journalist TEL: +91-832-2409490 MOBILE: 9822122436 http://fn.swiki.net http://www.livejournal.com/users/goalinks fred at bytesforall.org http://www.bytesforall.org
