How to get away with murder
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With less than 50% conviction rate overall and even less in heinous crimes like murder, the police chargesheet is the playbook for ‘getting away with murder’ I write on the recent acquittals in murder trials in #Chennai Mahila court. @dt_next
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With less than 50% conviction rate overall and even less in heinous crimes like murder, the police chargesheet is the playbook for ‘getting away with murder’ I write on the recent acquittals in murder trials in #Chennai Mahila court. @dt_next
In last two months, verdict was given in seven murder cases, four of them ending in acquittal. It is unlikely that #Chennai police would take up these cases for re-investigation.But the victims- a 4 y/o child, a young widow who left behind her two children are robbed of justice
Within two months of her adoption from an orphanage in Madurai, Clara was dead. Post mortem confirmed it was a murder. Eleven months later, Chintadripet police arrested the adoptive father, X Gerard, an advocate. Police theory was that he was upset that he got a ‘defective’ child
The chargesheet was filled with loopholes, with police providing no proof for their theory. The advocate contended that his corruption complaint against law university VC led police to foist case against him. He got acquitted. But, who killed Clara?
Father Jose Pitchai, in charge of the orphanage in Madurai from where Clara was adopted as a four year old hopes that there is a reinvestigation into the child’s murder.
A 27 year old widow was murdered for gain, leaving behind her two children, still minors. Last month, the accused in the case were acquitted.
Manufactured evidences, fabricated case, said court while acquitting the accused in the murder of a 48 year old.
#Chennai Police commissioner, Shankar Jiwal promises a new SoP to improve conviction rates.
Acquittals are not just embarrassments for police, but lethal for society.
Six years after he murdered a 18yo girl in Erode for turning down his proposal, a man murdered his TCS colleague in Chennai’s Perungudi in 2014 for the same reason. He was acquitted in the first murder.
Six years after he murdered a 18yo girl in Erode for turning down his proposal, a man murdered his TCS colleague in Chennai’s Perungudi in 2014 for the same reason. He was acquitted in the first murder.
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