Three Nepalese boys charged with committing theft in a post office last year have been acquitted by a city court which held that they were falsely implicated by the police.
NEW DELHI: Three Nepalese boys charged with committing theft in a post office last year have been acquitted by a city court which held that they were falsely implicated by the police.
“The present case has not been properly investigated by the police officials and rather it seems that the accused persons have been falsely implicated due to the reasons best known to the officials,” Metropolitan Magistrate Gautam Manan said in a recent order.
The magistrate, while exonerating Ashok, Tek Bahadur and Virender Kumar, all in their early 20s, noted ‘serious lapses’ on the part of the police and material contradictions in the statements of the witnesses.
Dismissing the prosecution contention that the investigating officer had taken photographs of the site which corroborated evidence against the accused, the court noted that no other police official present on the spot remembered anything about them.
“It is shocking that no photographs have been placed on record of the door or the site in question from where the prosecution states that there was an attempt of theft by the accused after broken opening the locks,” it further said.
The prosecution also failed to explain why no official from the post office was called at the time when the accused persons were nabbed by the police, the court observed.
The court also criticised the manner of investigation by the police saying, “the agency did not even bother to collect the keys of the broken locks in order to show that the locks belong to the post office in question.”
The three youths, all natives of Nepal, were arrested by the police on December 11, last year while allegedly committing theft in a post office near Kapashera in South-West Delhi.
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