Bihar Sharif: Chief Justice of the Nalanda Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) Manvendra Mishra on Tuesday acquitted a man of dacoity under section 396 of the IPC, 22 years after the crime was committed in 1995.
Additional Public Prosecutor (APP) Rajesh Pathak said that on the night of 24 May some armed dacoits robbed Raj Kumar Mahto’s house of jewellery, cash, clothes and other valuables in village Haripur under Ekangarsarai police station area and also of his brother Nepali Mahato. shot dead. 1995. Raj lodged an FIR the next day against unknown criminals.
On May 20, 2017, nearly 21 years after the incident, Raj filed an FIR against Anil Tiwari, who was a juvenile at the time of the incident. The Hilsa court had referred Anil’s case to JJB on February 18, 2021. The age of the accused was 16 years 7 months in 1995.
APP said the JJB court acquitted him on the ground that the statements of the witnesses produced by the prosecution lacked coherence and the accused, who is now 43 years old, was never made an accused in any other case. .
He said the court said, “Since the prosecution failed to prove his involvement in the case and the accused was not named in any other case, he should be acquitted of the charge filed against him under section 396 of IPC.”
The accused, who has three children, wife and widowed mother, works as a guard cum driver in a private school Patna,
Additional Public Prosecutor (APP) Rajesh Pathak said that on the night of 24 May some armed dacoits robbed Raj Kumar Mahto’s house of jewellery, cash, clothes and other valuables in village Haripur under Ekangarsarai police station area and also of his brother Nepali Mahato. shot dead. 1995. Raj lodged an FIR the next day against unknown criminals.
On May 20, 2017, nearly 21 years after the incident, Raj filed an FIR against Anil Tiwari, who was a juvenile at the time of the incident. The Hilsa court had referred Anil’s case to JJB on February 18, 2021. The age of the accused was 16 years 7 months in 1995.
APP said the JJB court acquitted him on the ground that the statements of the witnesses produced by the prosecution lacked coherence and the accused, who is now 43 years old, was never made an accused in any other case. .
He said the court said, “Since the prosecution failed to prove his involvement in the case and the accused was not named in any other case, he should be acquitted of the charge filed against him under section 396 of IPC.”
The accused, who has three children, wife and widowed mother, works as a guard cum driver in a private school Patna,
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