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Mattoo murder accused freed in related case
New Delhi, Oct 23: Seven years after the gruesome murder of a law student Priyadarshini Mattoo, a city court has discharged her alleged murderer Santosh Kumar Singh in a related case wherein he was charged with outraging her modesty in the law faculty premises two months before she was killed.
New Delhi, Oct 23: Seven years after the gruesome
murder of a law student Priyadarshini Mattoo, a city court has
discharged her alleged murderer Santosh Kumar Singh in a
related case wherein he was charged with outraging her modesty
in the law faculty premises two months before she was killed.
Observing that Matto herself could not be examined to
substantiate the charges levelled against Singh, son of a
senior IPS officer, as she was no more, additional sessions
judge Deepak Jagotra said "by asking the accused to stand
trial in such a situation would be too much to ask where the
inevitable acquittal is on the cards.
"In the present situation, the allegations cannot be
substantiated at trial... In the case at hand, it is not
possible for the prosecution to bring forth evidence so that
conviction can be made on that basis," the court said.
Mattoo had lodged a complaint at the Maurice Nagar Police
Station on November 6, 1995 alleging that Singh had forcibly
caught hold of her arm in the college premises.
Bureau Report