Court convicts ex-Army man of murder by tracing pistol ownership
The Hindu
Judge says investigating officers need to be sensitised to importance of firearm tracing
‘Every firearm tells a story’, a sessions court in Nuh said, convicting a former Army official for shooting dead a man over a trivial dispute after tracing the ownership of the murder weapon through the Unique Identification Number engraved on the pistol.
Additional sessions judge Prashant Rana, while sentencing the convict Khalid to life imprisonment, also stressed that the investigating officers and the public prosecutors need to be sensitised to the importance of firearm tracing and its role in justice delivery system.
The judge noted that there was a delay in dispensation of justice, of around one year, in this case on account of lapse of the Investigating Officer in tracing the ownership of the recovered firearm.
The election authorities are gearing up for the counting of votes cast in the simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh, scheduled to be held on June 4. The Collectors and Election Officers of Visakhapatnam, Anakapalli and Alluri Sitharama Raju (ASR) districts said on May 23 (Thursday) that their teams were ready for the counting of votes.
Responding to the prolonged water scarcity, the residents of the area took to the streets in protest on Wednesday. The protest, which drew attention to their plight, stopped only after the intervention of the police. It was not until 1.30 p.m. that a 4000-litre tanker was finally delivered by BWSSB, providing relief to the water-starved residents.