NEWS SCAN

The Karnataka high court on Wednesday acquitted three members of the dreaded Dandupalya gang in connection with the murder of a shop owner in Hubballi in 2000.

Allowing the appeals filed by Venkatesh alias Chandra, Munikrishna alias Krishna (both from Channasandra- Bengaluru rural district) and Nallathimma alias Thimma, Balekatte in Periyapatna taluk of Mysuru district, a division bench, headed by Justice Ravi Malimath, observed that the prosecution has failed to prove the case.

Setting aside the June 30, 2010 verdict of the special court at Parappana Agrahara which had imposed death penalty on them, the division bench has pointed out that no witnesses were in support of prosecution and there were no medical reports to say that the deceased died due to injuries inflicted by the accused and that the finger prints were not matching and there were no corroboration of prosecution witnesses as well as there was no corroboration of testimony.
The fourth accused in the case, one Lakshmamma alias Lakshmi of Dandupalya village, was acquitted by the special court itself.

As carried in TOI on 6/7/2017