STATE OF MAHARASHTRA Vs. BHARAT FAKIRA DHIWAR

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This appeal is against a judgment dated 7th July, 1997 of a Division Bench of the Bombay High Court as per which the conviction and sentence awarded to the respondent by a Sessions Court were set aside, and he was acquitted.

(2.) Briefly stated the facts are as follows :

(3.) On 24th October, 1995 P.W. 6 one Tanhabai Davkar went to the field to cut grass. There she noticed the dead body of a young girl lying among the sugarcane crop. Tanhabai then informed her son P.W. 12 one Sitaram Deokar that she had seen a body lying in the sugarcane field. Sitaram Deokar informed the Police. In the meantime, Shantabai came to the police station to make enquiries. She was informed that there was the dead body of a young girl lying in the field. Shantabai identified the dead body to be that of her grand daughter Nisha.