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Navy man acquitted of double murder
A sessions court acquitted two persons in a 1998 murder case for lack of evidence.
According to the prosecution's case, Mourya had murdered his wife and son as he was having an extra-marital affair.
According to Mourya, on the day of the incident he had left for work in the morning. In the evening, when he found the door to his house at Navy Nagar locked from inside, he approached the naval police for help.
The next morning, the naval police opened the door and found the bodies lying in a pool of blood in one of the rooms. Mourya was arrested the same day and the case transferred to the Colaba police.
...The police later claimed that Mourya had confessed to the crime and had named Babulal Gupta as his accomplice. However, there was not enough evidence to nail him in court.
Defence advocate Vijay Desai argued that all naval accommodation had only two keys. While one was with the occupants, the other was kept with the naval headquarters. When the murder took place, Mourya's key was still in the house and the naval police had to gain access to the house with the spare one."This cast doubts in the mind of the court about Mourya's guilt," said Desai.
Sixteen witnesses, including Vandana's parents and neighbours, were examined by the prosecution. Some of the neighbours and her parents testified that Mourya was having an affair with a widow living in the same neighbourhood.
Yet, the prosecution could not build a watertight case against Mourya. Gupta's death due to AIDS-related complications in 2003 also weakened the prosecution's case.
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