Chandrakant Jha, who is accused of killing people and dumping their bodies in front of Tihar jail, was released on Wednesday by a court here.
NEW DELHI: Chandrakant Jha, who is accused of killing people and dumping their bodies in front of Tihar jail, was released on Wednesday by a court here in a murder case after police found no evidence against him.
Metropolitan Magistrate Manish Gupta ordered the release of Jha, arrested for the sensational serial killings, in the four-year-old murder case of one Umesh after the Investigating Officer (IO) submitted that there was no evidence against him.
An FIR was registered with Hari Nagar police station on November 20, 2003 following recovery of a body in a white-bag outside gate number one of Tihar Jail here. The police later identified the body as that of Umesh.
Jha, arrested on May 20, was accused of several killings including the murder of Umesh, 26, by the police following his disclosure statement.
"In view of the circumstances and material on record and submissions of the prosecution and investigating officer, I am of the considered opinion that there is no sufficient evidence against the accused. He may be released in the present case," the court said.
In the application seeking release of Jha, IO Ombir Singh said that there was no cogent evidence against him except his alleged disclosure statement.
"The accused was taken on two days police remand but no recovery could be effected from him," Singh said.
The police have so far filed three chargesheets against Jha, who hails from Madhepura in Bihar, in as many murder cases invoking Sections 302 (murder) and 201 (destruction of evidence) of the IPC.
The police had alleged that Jha, 40, now in judicial custody, murdered his three associates Amit, Dilip and Upendra after taking offence to their "drinking, eating meat and womanising".
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