GUWAHATI: Gauhati High Court has acquitted a man, who was sentenced to life imprisonment by a lower court in 2017 in a murder case that took place in Assam’s Jorhat in 2014 after the evidence was found inconclusive.
The bench of Justice Kalyan Rai Surana and Justice Malasri Nandi set aside the lower court’s judgment recently against Dhiren Majhi, the petitioner. “There was no corroboration of the evidence of prosecution witness Brijesh Majhi even though his statements before the magistrate at the time of recording his statement during investigation and before the trial court were identical to each other. He (Dhiren) shall be released forthwith if not required to be detained in connection with any other case,” it said.
