Court acquits 4, says evidence of cops does not inspire confidence

Acquitting four persons in a case of assaulting and threatening an on-duty police station incharge in 2015, a sessions court pointed out several discrepancies in the evidence of police before it and said that their evidence does not inspire confidence.

As per the complaint filed by Swati Khedkar who was incharge of Nehru Nagar police station, on January 18, 2015, the four persons Zubeda Nisar, Febin Shaikh, Nisar Ahmed and Kadar Shaikh had come into her cabin. Zubeda had questioned Khedkar why her brother Arif Shaikh had been brought to the station. Khedkar had explained that he was brought in connection with a motor accident case in which he had not paid the fine. Zubeda had allegedly started shouting, caught Khedkar’s collar and slapped her while Febin had scuffled and the other two had threatened her.

The prosecution had examined five witnesses, of which four were police and an independent witness who did not support its case. Adhoc Assistant Sessions Judge CP Jain said in her judgment that if the evidence is minutely scrutinized, it will reflect that there is no consistency in the oral evidence of all the prosecution witnesses.