"Sordid Saga": Court Exonerates Ex MBBS Student In Girlfriend's Murder
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"The case is entirely pivoted on circumstantial evidence. There are no eyewitnesses to the alleged murder of a woman," the high court said.
Setting aside the conviction of a tribal man in the alleged murder of a woman, the Madhya Pradesh High Court has slammed the police saying they investigated the case with the "sole purpose of falsely implicating" him, and directed the state government to pay Rs 42 lakh to him as he spent over 13 years behind bars "awaiting justice".
Stating that the case reveals a "sordid saga of manipulative and preconceived investigation followed by a malicious prosecution", the high court also said that his conviction and incarceration threw the man's entire life into a "disarray".
Chandresh Marskole was arrested in 2008 in connection with the alleged murder when he was in the final year of the MBBS course at Bhopal-based Gandhi Medical College. He was accused of killing his girlfriend and dumping her body in Pachmarhi in the state. He is around 34 years old now.
A division bench of the high court, comprising Justices Atul Sreedharan and Sunita Yadav, on Wednesday set aside Mr Marskole's conviction in the murder case and disposed of his appeal against a lower court's judgement passed in 2009.
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