Court acquits father, son in murder case

27/02/2015

POONCH: Principal Sessions Judge Poonch Mr. Jaffer Hussain Beigh has acquitted Khursheed Hussain and his son Nazir Hussain for committing the murder of close relative for getting the property of the deceased, as prosecution failed.
According to the police case that the information was received from reliable source on 3.8.2009 by Police Station Mandi that the death of Mst. Hajra Begum has occurred in suspicious circumstances on 2.8.2008 and the dead body is lying near the house of the deceased. After receiving the postmortem report of the deceased the opinion of the doctor was that the deceased Hajra Begum has died because of strangulation and death has been caused by throttling. During the course of enquiry it was established that Mohd Rashied, the husband of the deceased died due to heart attack and he was a Government employee serving in JKAP and on his death the Department sanctioned an amount of Rs.7,74,000/- in favour of his family members and a house at Kenu as well as at Poonch were constructed. The family was also getting the pension of the deceased Mohd Rashid. The accused Nazir Hussain and Khursheed Hussain, the close relatives of the deceased became greedy to get the property of the deceased Mohd Rashied and proposed the marriage of the accused Khursheed Hussain with the daughter, namely, Iram Mir of the deceased which was refused by the deceased Mst. Hajra Begum and led the strain relations between them and on the basis of this strain relationship both the accused persons made plan to kill the deceased Mst. Hajra Begum. In pursuance of that plan on 2.8.2008 both the accused went to the house of the deceased Hajra Begum and throttled her to death and put her dead body in the field. After completion of the enquiry offence u/s 302 read with section 34 RPC were established and after completion of the investigation challan was presented.
Principal Sessions Judge Poonch Mr. Jaffer Hussain Beigh on consideration of all these relevant facts and vital piece of evidence, it can safely be concluded that the involvement of the accused persons is not proved in the instant case. The result is that the prosecution case against the accused persons is dismissed and they are acquitted of the charges framed against them. JNF

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