Kolkata, Sept. 9 -- Seventeen years after a woman was accused of killing her one-and-a-half-year-old nephew, the Calcutta High Court has acquitted her, ruling that suspicion, however strong, cannot substitute for proof.
A division bench comprising Justice Rajasekhar Mantha and Justice Ajay Kumar Gupta today overturned the lower court's judgment that had sentenced the accused, Mona Naskar, to life imprisonment.
"The investigating agency has failed to provide conclusive evidence. Since doubt cannot take the place of proof, the accused is acquitted," the bench observed.
The case dates back to August 12, 2008, in Manikpur village of Sankrail, Howrah. On that day, the child's parents had left him with his grandmother before going to work.
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