City court gives verdict via video conferencing

KANPUR: Kanpur judiciary became first in the state which has recorded the statement of an accused in a murder case and delivered judgment via video conferencing on Friday. The achievement was obtained by additional district and sessions judge Avinash Saxena in a murder case styled as state v/s Sonu Singh alias Satyabhan Singh.
The ADJ first recorded the statement of accused under Section 313 CrPC and thereafter delivered the judgment.The court acquitted accused Sonu Singh from murder charges for want of evidence but the case was recorded as first in the list of video conferencing judgments. Kaptan, a resident of Jargaon village in Sachendi had lodged a report that Sonu Singh had shot his father named as Chakotar dead following a tiff on May 19, 2011.
Sonu brought his father’s rifle and fired on Chakotar who died on the spot. During the trial, all the witnesses turned hostile and stated that a shot was mistakenly fired when Sonu was cleaning the gun.