By Express News Service
CUTTACK: The Orissa High Court has acquitted an individual of the costs of killing his spouse, 22 years after he challenged the trial courtroom judgment sentencing him to life imprisonment.
Jayaram Sahoo of Jhatiapada village below Dharamsala police limits was convicted for the homicide of his spouse Saria and sentenced to life imprisonment by the courtroom of extra classes decide, Jajpur on January 7, 2000.
Jayaram had challenged the trial courtroom order the identical 12 months. The High Court put aside the trial courtroom verdict on Thursday. The division bench of Chief Justice S Muralidhar and Justice R Okay Pattanaik mentioned the prosecution had within the case failed to determine a sequence of circumstances.
“Neither are the circumstances relied upon by the prosecution of a conclusive nature nor do they exclude every possible hypothesis except the one to be proved. Further, the chain of evidence is not so complete as not to leave any reasonable ground for the conclusion consistent with the innocence of the accused. It does not unerringly point to the guilt of the accused,” the bench mentioned.
Sahoo had said that whereas carrying Saria on his bicycle as a pillion, he met with an accident. As a end result, Saria fell down on the street and sustained accidents that led to her loss of life.
