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Three persons arraigned connected the complaint of murdering a seven-year-old Dalit miss successful Aluva successful 2011 were acquitted by the Special Judge, Muvattupuzha (for the proceedings of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act cases), citing deficiency of capable grounds and lapses successful the investigation. The accused were identified arsenic Sindhu Nair and her hubby Jose Kurian of Aluva, and the victim’s uncle, Nagappan.
According to the prosecution, the mates had allegedly bought the miss from her parents done Nagappan for household work. It was besides alleged that the kid was subjected to cruelty astatine the couple’s house, which led to her decease astatine a backstage infirmary successful Kolenchery.
The Aluva constabulary registered the lawsuit aft residents raised doubts implicit the circumstances surrounding the girl’s death. The lawsuit was initially heard astatine the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court-I successful Aluva earlier being transferred to the Special Judge, Muvattupuzha.
The defence claimed that the mates had hired a maid for household chores and that the miss had accompanied her to the house. The accused besides claimed that the home idiosyncratic went missing aft the girl’s decease and has remained untraceable since.
In its order, the tribunal observed that determination was nary capable grounds to find the accused blameworthy and that the probe was conducted carelessly. It noted that the prosecution had not disclosed the beingness of different middle-aged home idiosyncratic staying astatine the couple’s house. The tribunal further said the grounds collected from the location was anemic and had not been obtained successful accordance with the instrumentality by the investigating officer.
