Panchkula, May 17 -- A local court in Panchkula has acquitted Sameem alias Salim, a native of Bijnor district in Uttar Pradesh, in the 2022 murder case of a Bangladeshi woman whose body was found near Chandigarh Railway Station. The deceased, identified as Rozina Begum, was residing in Mauli Jagran, Chandigarh, with her husband and family. At the time of the incident, the accused was also living in Mauli Jagran.

The government railway police (GRP) Chandigarh registered the case on January 15, 2022 under Sections 302 and 34 of the IPC after finding the woman's body near Line Number 8 in the railway station yard. Police recovered a sharp-edged iron blade, blood-stained soil and blood-soaked cloth from the crime scene. The postmortem reveal...