Holding that “an unbroken chain of circumstantial evidence proved the guilt of the accused beyond reasonable doubt”, a local court here on Monday convicted a man for killing his parents and killing them at their home in Raipur in 2010. Convicted and honored with a burial on K.’s lawn. a life sentence.
Udayan Das, a resident of Madhya Pradesh’s Bhopal, made national headlines in 2016 when he was arrested for killing his live-in partner, Bankura resident Akanksha Sharma (28), and hiding her body in a marble plinth in his house. it was done. The arrest was followed by his own sensational revelation that he had murdered his parents – Indrani and BK Das – a few years ago because they were “forcing him to study maths”. A West Bengal court has already convicted him for Sharma’s murder in 2020.
After killing his parents, Udayan summons a construction worker and digs a pit, saying it is to install a septic tank. He had buried both of them in that pit under the lawn of his residence in Raipur’s DD Nagar. In 2017, the bodies were exhumed after registering a case of murder and destruction of evidence.
However, there was no eyewitness to the murder. The doctor who conducted the postmortem accepted the defense’s claim that it could not be established how the two died. Furthermore, there was no evidence in the form of testimony of any neighbor or acquaintance to suggest that the deaths were accidental or homicidal, i.e. Udayan had bludgeoned them to death.
However, the court referred to an earlier order of the Supreme Court Bodh Raj @ Bodh And Ors Vs. State Of Jammu And Kashmir since 2002 To conclude that the circumstantial evidence in the case is more important than any doubt in favor of the accused.
The 2002 Supreme Court order states, “…where the case rests entirely on circumstantial evidence, the presumption of guilt can be upheld only when all the presumptive facts and circumstances establish the innocence of the accused or otherwise.” inconsistent with the offense of the person.” reads.