Murder accused woman acquitted for want of evidence
HERALD REPORTER
MARGAO, SEPT 30
The South Goa Sessions court on Thursday acquitted Filsu alias Rani in the murder of history sheeter from Khareband-Margao Tadev Diniz for want of evidence.
Additional Sessions Judge Desmond D’Costa gave the accused woman the benefit of doubt as the lone eye witness cited by the prosecution could not convincingly state that he had seen the accused stabbing the deceased.
The prosecution had in all examined 12 witnesses, but their testimony could not convince the court on the involvement of the accused woman in the murder.
It is learnt that the mental condition of the woman also helped her acquittal after doctors submitted in the court that the accused was not in a position to understand the consequences of her actions during the quarrel with the history sheeter, given her poor mental frame of mind.
Adv Joe Antao, who appeared for the accused, said that the court acquitted his client for want of evidence. “There was one eye witness who could not clearly state that he had seen the woman removing the knife to stab Tadev to death,” he added.
The Margao police had on December 17 last arrested the accused woman for stabbing Tadev to death outside a hotel at Khareband after some quarrel.
