Supreme Court: The Supreme Court on Friday (March 3) acquitted a West Bengal man of the charge of killing his wife after 40 years. The court said that the conviction of someone cannot be upheld only on the basis of confessional statement i.e. extra judicial confession as it is weak evidence.
Extra judicial confession is questionable because its credibility is under doubt. Because of this it loses its importance. The murder took place on March 11, 1983 in Burdwan district of West Bengal, on this case the trial court released the accused husband Nikhil Chandra Mondal on March 31, 1987, but the state government reached the Kolkata High Court regarding this. Here Mondal was sentenced to life imprisonment on 15 December 2008.
What did the Supreme Court say?
On the decision of the High Court, Mondal approached the Supreme Court in 2010. Judge B.R. Gavai and Justice Sanjay Karol’s bench, citing the 1984 order, set aside the High Court’s decision.
The bench said, “It is a settled principle of law that suspicion, however deep and strong, cannot take the place of evidence.” The trial court’s decision was based on extra judicial confessions. There is also a contradiction in the statements of
What is the matter?
A case was registered on March 11, 1983 at Ketugram police station. It was told that the body of a 25-year-old woman is on the railway track. During the investigation, the police came to know that the victim was killed with a sharp weapon. Last time Mondal had taken her and his son to the fair. Both were missing since then.
Police claimed that Mondal confessed to three villagers, Manik Pal, Pravat Kumar Mishra and Kanai Saha, that he had killed his wife at the spot from where her body was found.
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