Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)

Mangaluru, Oct 27: The fourth additional district and sessions court here absolved all the three accused in a murder case which had happened on May 7, 2012 at Boliyar in Dharmasthala village, Beltangady taluk on May 7, 2012. In this  incident, a man named Shashindra had been murdered.

When Shashindra was moving in his two-wheeler at around 9.30 PM that day, Harish Poojary from Mapalaje in Nidle village, and Manoj Poojary from Chelarupadavu in Chelaru village reportedly stopped him and stabbed him to death. Harish and Manoj had been named as prime accused and second accused respectively.

As a person named Raghuchandra from Noochila had carried the second accused, Manoj Poojary, on his two-wheeler after the murder, the prosecution had named him the third accused, charging him with giving a drop to Manoj, in spite of knowing him to be a murderer. Brother of the deceased, Santosh Kumar, filed murder case in Beltangady police station.

The then Beltangady circle inspector, Bhaskar Rai, had conducted the investigation and filed a charge sheet in the case. The court, during the hearing, examined 27 witnesses. Judge of the court, Nerale Veerabhadraiah Bhavani, who came to the conclusion that the prosecution had failed to prove the charges, absolved all the accused through a judgement.

The accused were represented in the case by advocate Talekana Radhakrishna Shetty.