A local court has convicted a man of murdering his wife and daughter with an iron rod in south Delhi’s Sangam Vihar and attempting to kill his second daughter in 2018.
The judge therefore examined the case principally on circumstantial and corroborative evidence.
The court noted that the submission of defence that an unknown burglar had entered the Sangam Vihar house through an adjoining rooftops and attacked the family, and said the “theory is a speculative possibility and not a reasonable inference arising from the evidence”. https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/others/man-beaten-to-death-with-hammer-iron-rod-in-hapur-attackers-flee-101787082369453.html Rahul, who had initially told police that he saw his father assaulting the victims, later turned hostile. “The repeated blows upon the heads of Vidyawati and Kavita with a heavy iron rod, causing fatal cranio-cerebral injuries, clearly establish the intention to cause death or, at the minimum, the intention to cause bodily injuries sufficient in the ordinary course of nature to cause death,” the court held.
