Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (SP)

Mangalore, Aug 2: Through a judgment delivered on Friday August 1, the district and sessions court here has acquitted all the ten persons accused of playing a role in the murder of a person named Badruddin, when he was participating in the annual festival of Kallige Kanappadittaya Daivasthana in Bantwal taluk. The murder had occurred on March 5, 2011.

The daughter of the main accused Ganesh, was reportedly a high school student. Badruddin from Brahmarakootlu, it is said, used to trail and pester this girl to marry him. The prosecution said that Ganesh, who was angry at this development, and sensing that the future of his daughter would be doomed if Badruddin is allowed to live on, had hatched a conspiracy to eliminate Badruddin. The charge sheet said that Ganesh, along with son, Kishen, and others like Kalladka Jeevan, Praveen, Mithun, Raviraj, Manjunath from Bondel, Loyal D'Souza and Marakada Gopinath Sachchu, had come together and hatched a plan to kill Badruddin.

When Badruddin had taken part in the annual festival of Kanarpadittaya Daivasthana in 2011, he was allegedly picked up, taken in a Maruti Omni car to Brahmarakootlu, and hacked with lethal weapons to death on the railway tracks near Brahmarakootlu, the policemen had said. The body of the victim was found to have been deserted deserted the body on the highway near Ramalkatte.

A case was registered as per a complaint filed by the father of the deceased. Police inspector, K Nanjunde Gowda, had arrested the accused, and filed charge sheet in the court. The court, finding that there were lack of consistency in the statements of witnesses and the statements of the accused suffered from several contradictions and mismatches, exonerated them of all the charges and ordered for their release.

Advocates, P P Hegde and Rajesh Kumar Amtady, had appeared in this case on behalf of the accused.