Port Blair, Jan 13: The father-in-law P. Elambari had killed his eldest daughter-in-law Smti Zubaida by inflicting several knife blows on her abdomen as well as other parts of her person on 11/6/2010 at about 4:00 PM. On this a FIR no. 76/2010 dated 11/6/2010 U/s 302 IPC was registered at Police Station Chatham upon the statement given by Smti P. Neelaveni who is another daughter-in-law of accused P. Elambari. The investigation of this case was carried out by Sub-Inspector R.N. Mishra, the than SHO PS Chatham which revealed that there was a family dispute between P. Elambari and his wife. The wife of the accused was residing separately in Haddo but she used to visit the house of her elder son Dilishwar Rao and his deceased wife Smti Zubaida.
The accused P. Elambari had retired from Forest Department in the year 2009 and had received lumsum amount as pensionary benefit. The wife of the accused was demanding share from that money. Moreover, there was land dispute between Smti Zubaida and the accused P. Elambari. The accused P. Elambari wanted to drive out Smti Zubaida from his family and the accused desired not to give any share of his property to his elder daughter – in – law Smti Zubaida and his eldest son Dilishwar Rao. On 11/6/2010 at about 4:00 PM Smti Zubaida came out from bathroom commonly used by all family members. While Smti Zubaida came out from bathroom and she was proceeding to her house, the accused P. Elambari came infront of her and asked why was she using said bathroom and why wasn’t she constructing her own bathroom. There was brief quarrel and the accused P. Elambari pushed her, as a result of which, she fell down on the ground and thereafter the accused sat on her chest and started inflicting several knife blows on her abdomen as well as other parts of her person. The deceased Smti Zubaida succumbed to injury on the spot. While the accused was inflicting knife blows on the person of the deceased Smti Zubaida, other family members raised hue and cry and the accused also threatened the other family members by pointing said knife at them.
After completion of investigation, the charge sheet vide No. 80/2010 dated 6/7/2010 was submitted against accused P. Elambari before the Ld. Court of CJM at Port Blair. The Ld. Court of CJM of Port Blair committed the case to the Court of Sessions for trial.
During the trial, prosecution has examined as many as 21 witnesses but the defense did not examine any defense witness. After hearing the argument of both sides, the Ld. Court of Additional Sessions Judge Mr. Sribash Chandra Das has convicted the accused P. Elambari on 30/12/2011 and imposed punishment to the accused to suffer rigorous imprisonment for life with fine of Rs. 500/- in default of payment of fine, the accused has to suffer simple imprisonment for further period of one month.
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