4 acquitted for murder attempt on call centre cab driver

NEW DELHI: A year after a call centre cab driver was attempted to be murdered by four men over a verbal tiff, a court here has acquitted the accused after the prosecution failed to prove its allegations.

Additional Sessions Judge Dinesh Dayal absolved K V Philips, Baby K V, Prasad and Suresh Kumar for stabbing Deepu, a cab driver with a Noida-based call centre.

As per the prosecution which had examined nine witnesses in the case, Deepu was attacked on the night of August 27 last year at a place nearby his house at Mayur Vihar Phase-III in the city.

It was alleged that Deepu, who was on a Tata Indica, was stopped by a vegetable vendor, when the four accused began to abuse him.

When he resisted, three of the accused caught him while Philips stabbed him.

Following the incident, Deepu called up his uncle who took him to a nearby hospital. A complaint was registered with New Ashok Nagar police station.

The court, while exonerating the accused, noted that the prosecution had failed to bring in sufficient witnesses to prove its allegations.

It expressed surprise that though the incident took place near to the victim's house, there were no persons who had seen the incident taking place.