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PRAYAGRAJ: Allahabad precocious tribunal has convicted an aged antheral and an accomplice of strangling his woman to decease successful 1982 nether the pretext of “driving retired a ghost”, calling it a shocking lawsuit of unsighted religion utilized arsenic a screen for murder.After a 43-year-long ineligible battle, a part seat of Justices Rajiv Gupta and Harvir Singh sentenced Awadhesh Kumar, 71, and co-accused Mata Prasad to beingness imprisonment, overturning a 1984 proceedings tribunal acquittal.High tribunal calls wife’s sidesplitting ‘classic lawsuit of unsighted faith’The tribunal besides handed them three-year sentences nether IPC Section 201 for destroying evidence, saying some presumption would tally concurrently.
Two different accused died portion the entreaty filed by UP govt was pending.Prosecutors said Kumar killed his 23-year-old woman Kusuma Devi connected Aug 6, 1982, aft being caught successful an illicit narration with his younger brother’s wife.Kumar, who was past 28 years old, Prasad and 2 others pinned Kusuma down and throttled her, claiming they were exorcising a ghost.Her assemblage was cremated successful a hurry that aforesaid nighttime to conceal the crime, according to witnesser testimony.
Calling it “a classical lawsuit of unsighted faith”, the HC said: “Such unfortunate realities are inactive prevalent successful distant areas successful antithetic cultures based connected superstition and belief, conscionable to bring bully luck and to appease the gods. This shocks the conscience of civilized nine and is to beryllium condemned by 1 and all, to curb specified societal evils.”Awadhesh Kumar and co-accused Mata Prasad person been ordered to surrender wrong 2 weeks. Each was fined Rs 20,000 for execution and Rs 5,000 for destroying evidence.
