New Delhi, Jul 24 A Delhi court has acquitted a man accused of attempting to murder a person in southeast Delhi in 2020, saying the prosecution failed to prove the charge as the injured did not testify and there was no substantive evidence against the accused.
Principal District and Sessions Judge Umed Singh was hearing a case against Alamin alias Yamin, who was accused of stabbing Furkan on the head near Taimoor Nagar on July 19, 2020.
In the order dated July 16, the court said, “The prosecution has failed to prove the case and hence, accused Alamin alias Yamin stands acquitted of the offence under Section 307 of the IPC.”
An FIR was registered in the case against the accused under IPC Section 307 (attempt to murder) at the New Friends Colony police station.
According to the prosecution, the accused stabbed Furkan following a quarrel a few days earlier. The FIR was registered on the complaint of Furkan’s wife, who told police that her husband had named Yamin as the assailant.
The court noted that the injured, the ‘star witness’ in the case, did not appear before it despite repeated summonses and warrants, and was eventually dropped from the list of witnesses.
It also said that the complainant's wife was not an eyewitness and her statement was based on what the injured allegedly told her.
The judge also said that the medical record did not disclose the name of the assailant, while the prosecution failed to produce any other incriminating evidence.
The court pointed out that the arrest memo also did not advance the prosecution's case as the place of occurrence was already known to police.
Holding that it was “a case of no evidence”, the court acquitted the accused of the offence under IPC Section 307.
