<p class="title">Setting an example in swift disposal of lawsuits, the Delhi High Court has decided a long pending murder case in just three hours.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A bench of justices S Muralidhar and I S Mehta took up for hearing an appeal filed by a 29-year-old man, facing life term for killing his minor step-son, and acquitted him of the charges of murder.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The bench was able to fast-track the matter as it was a relatively uncomplicated case not requiring a lengthy hearing or mountain of evidence.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Mosin, a resident of Uttar Pradesh, was given life term by the trial court in September 2017 for smashing his three- -year-old step son's head on a stone after allegedly getting irritated by the child's continuous weeping at night.</p>.<p class="bodytext">As per the police, the accused had killed the minor on the intervening night of May 26-27, 2012. He is in custody since May 2012.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Advocate Sumeet Verma, filed an appeal before the high court on November 24, 2017, challenging the man's conviction and order on sentence.</p>.<p class="bodytext">While admitting the man's appeal, who was working as a gardener at a nursery here, the bench had on first date of hearing called for the trial court's record.</p>.<p class="bodytext">At the next hearing, the bench heard the arguments on behalf of the accused and the state and managed to wind up the hearing in three hours, including dictating the order.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The bench said it is unable to "concur with the trial court that in the present case the extra-judicial confession purportedly made by the appellant to (nursery owner) inspires confidence and has been corroborated by other prosecution evidence".</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Being a weak piece of circumstantial evidence, without satisfying the above requirement, it cannot be made the sole basis for returning a finding of guilt against the appellant for the offence under Section 302 (murder) IPC," the court said.</p>
<p class="title">Setting an example in swift disposal of lawsuits, the Delhi High Court has decided a long pending murder case in just three hours.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A bench of justices S Muralidhar and I S Mehta took up for hearing an appeal filed by a 29-year-old man, facing life term for killing his minor step-son, and acquitted him of the charges of murder.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The bench was able to fast-track the matter as it was a relatively uncomplicated case not requiring a lengthy hearing or mountain of evidence.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Mosin, a resident of Uttar Pradesh, was given life term by the trial court in September 2017 for smashing his three- -year-old step son's head on a stone after allegedly getting irritated by the child's continuous weeping at night.</p>.<p class="bodytext">As per the police, the accused had killed the minor on the intervening night of May 26-27, 2012. He is in custody since May 2012.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Advocate Sumeet Verma, filed an appeal before the high court on November 24, 2017, challenging the man's conviction and order on sentence.</p>.<p class="bodytext">While admitting the man's appeal, who was working as a gardener at a nursery here, the bench had on first date of hearing called for the trial court's record.</p>.<p class="bodytext">At the next hearing, the bench heard the arguments on behalf of the accused and the state and managed to wind up the hearing in three hours, including dictating the order.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The bench said it is unable to "concur with the trial court that in the present case the extra-judicial confession purportedly made by the appellant to (nursery owner) inspires confidence and has been corroborated by other prosecution evidence".</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Being a weak piece of circumstantial evidence, without satisfying the above requirement, it cannot be made the sole basis for returning a finding of guilt against the appellant for the offence under Section 302 (murder) IPC," the court said.</p>