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Court acquits ‘terror-suspect’ as
police case falls apart
WSN Network
JALANDHAR: How Punjab Police expertise in foisting false
charges and concocting evidence can fall apart in a cour of law if
the right questions are asked was clear when a so-called “terror
suspect” accused of carrying out a crime no less than two bomb
blasts at local bus stand fell apart in the court and the accused
was acquitted in two cases in a single day by the court.
The fast track court of Additional Sessions Judge Ravinder
Singh acquitted Satnam Singh Satta of Lasoori village as the
prosecution failed to prove its case and the defense exposed several
holes in police theory and the investigations.
Satta was accused of carrying out an explosion in a garbage
heap of at the bus terminus here on
June 15, 2006 due
to which an empty bus caught fire. Police had claimed that it had
recovered explosives including potash, sulphur, pieces of iron pipe
and some other material from his house on June 14, 2006. Separate
cases were registered against him.
While Satta was acquitted in both these cases on Friday, he
is facing another case of a blast in a passenger bus on
April 24, 2006 in
which three people perished and several others were injured.
The Defense pleaded in the case that while there was little
independent evidence against him, the police flouted the rules of
Explosives Act. This led to his acquittal. He was also made to
confess by torture in police custody.
At the time of his arrest, the police had claimed that they
had stumbled on the explosives at his house in a raid carried out in
connection with a murder. Later, claimed the police, he owned up his
involvement in the blasts.
21 January 2009
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