A Delhi court rejected a plea by Ilyasi's mother-in-law Rukma Singh to try him for the cold-blooded murder under Section 302 of IPC.
Suhaib Ilyasi of India's Most Wanted TV serial fame, currently facing trial for allegedly killing his wife for dowry which is a milder offence, has escaped facing the graver charge of murdering her in cold blood.
A Delhi court rejected a plea by Ilyasi's mother-in-law Rukma Singh to try him for the cold-blooded murder under Section 302 of IPC.
The charge of killing for dowry is under Section 304 of IPC, which attracts much lesser punishment.
Additional sessions judge Sanjay Garg also dismissed Rukma Singh's plea to try him for tampering with evidence related to the murder of his wife Anju in the year 2000.
"I also find no evidence to support the allegation of tampering with the evidence," the judge said while dismissing the application.
Garg dismissed Singh's plea saying a sessions judge had earlier rejected a similar application on the ground that "there is no fresh material or ground to frame charges of murder" against Ilyasi.
Rukma Singh, in a recent application, had stated Ilyasi had murdered her daughter Anju way back in 2000.
She relied upon the statement of Dr LC Gupta who had conducted the post-mortem and contradicted his earlier findings after more than one and half years and said homicide cannot be ruled out.
Gupta had earlier stated in his report that injuries inflicted upon the deceased (Anju) were self inflicted and suicidal in nature.
However, in his reply, Ilyasi contended that Dr Gupta's statement could not be relied upon as he was transferred from the mortuary department following an inquiry into various complaints by the police deaprtment of his unprofessional work.
He told the court that there was no new ground to frame additional charges against him as the statement of erstwhile assistant commissioner of police Rajeev Ranjan, who had probed the case and said that "it's a case of clear-cut murder", was available to the court in 2002 also when the murder charge against him was dropped.
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