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- By a Parinda Crime Reporter, February 22, 2006, 09:34 IST
Mumbai: It is not only the accused belonging to high profile, powerful families who take advantage of the weakness in the system, the low profile, lesser mortal too get acquitted for `lack of evidence`.
Seven years after Vishal Shelke was arrested for the murder of a 15-year-old girl who turned down his proposal of marriage, the Bombay high court on Monday acquitted him citing a lack of evidence.
Striking down a sessions court order sentencing Shelke to life imprisonment, a division bench of Justices N V Dabholkar and V K Tahilramani acquitted Shelke saying the case was based solely on circumstantial evidence.
Shelke, then 25 years old, was charged for murdering Kalpana Joshi on June 30, 1999, on a busy Mahim road in broad daylight. Shelke had repeatedly asked Kalpana, daughter of former assistant sub inspector Baba Joshi, to marry him.
Kalpana had turned down his proposal. A year before the murder, Shelke allegedly assaulted Kalpana and her mother with a chopper. He was then arrested and released on bail.
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