The Delhi High Court has maintained the life imprisonment against a man in a murder case at Dabri in South-West Delhi in 1991.
A Division Bench of Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice G. P. Mittal upheld the conviction and the quantum of sentence of convict Om Prakash on the basis of an eyewitness account of the incident by the victim’s son and other witnesses.
The victim’s son was sleeping with his father on the same cot. At the time of the incident, the victim’s son was nine years old. He recorded his evidence two years after the murder.
The Bench dismissed argument by counsel for the convict that the victim’s son was lying about identifying Om Prakash as the person who stabbed his father as the murder was committed late in the night and there was no light at the spot. The Bench said that the eyewitness’ version of the incident had been corroborated by other witnesses.
