Azamgarh News: Life imprisonment to 3 accused of Dalit murder, one acquitted

Azamgarh. In the case of murder of a Dalit, the court found three of the four accused guilty and sentenced them to life imprisonment. Also, each was fined Rs 50,000. While another accused in the same case was acquitted due to lack of sufficient evidence. This decision was given by SC ST Court Judge Kamlapati on Monday.

According to the case, Rajendra, nephew of plaintiff Ramdular, resident of Usargawan of Bardah police station, was sleeping with his son in his room on the night of 22 October 2003. When Ramdular reached there after hearing the gunshot at 10 pm, he saw that Rana Pratap Singh, Pradeep Singh, Manish Kumar Singh of the village shot Rajendra and were running away using caste-specific abusive language. During the investigation, Ramdular told the police in his statement that there was a conspiracy of the village’s Adalat Ram in this incident. In this case, the concerned police station registered a case and sent the charge sheet against the accused to the court.

The prosecution presented 11 witnesses and put forward arguments. After hearing the arguments of both the sides, the court found the accused Rana Pratap, Pradeep Singh, Manish Singh guilty.

Courtesy : Hindi News