New Delhi: A Delhi court granted bail to a youth who is accused of murdering a man by slitting his throat and then severing his head along with two other people also accused in the case.
The murder was reported from near the Delhi Zoo last year.
Additional sessions judge Kiran Gupta said that except for the disclosure statements of the co-accused, there was no evidence before the court at this stage to prove that the applicant, Hassan Raza (19), was aware of the conspiracy hatched by the other co-accused or of his involvement in the murder. Raza got bail after furnishing a bond of Rs 50,000 and agreeing to several conditions.
The judge observed that according to the prosecution, Sachin, who was murdered, was in a relationship with Sameena, one of the accused. Sameena and Haseebul Hassan allegedly hatched a conspiracy to murder Sachin. Raza, Haseebul’s nephew, was also made a co-accused in the belief that he aided in the murder.
According to the chargesheet, Hassan confessed to the abduction and murder of Sachin with the help of his wife Sameena and nephew Raza. He disclosed that after committing the murder, they threw the body in the bushes of Dasana Canal, beside the Noida Kakor Road in Bulandshehar, Uttar Pradesh. Hassan and Sameena said that they, along with Raza, hatched a conspiracy to kill Sachin.
Raza was in judicial custody since April 5 last year. Advocate Arjun Raghuvanshi, appearing for him, submitted before the court that Raza has no previous involvement or criminal antecedents and the investigation in the present case was complete, the- chargesheet had been filed, and so, the custody of the applicant was not required for further investigation. The counsel told the court that Hassan has nothing to do with the alleged offence as he was neither named in the FIR, nor was apprehended at the time of registration of the FIR. He has been falsely implicated solely on the basis of the statement of co-accused, said the counsel.
“Except that Rs 500 was transferred into the account of Raza (from Hassan), there is no other cogent evidence indicating that he participated in the conspiracy” of murdering Sachin, the judge concluded. The prosecution opposed the bail, submitting before the court that Raza committed the murder of Sachin in a “very brutal manner.”
