In a case straight out of the crime thrillers, two persons convicted for murdering a woman were acquitted by the civil court in Bihar’s Chapra district after the police found the ‘murder victim alive. "Two days after the disappearance of Sweety, a woman was found murdered on the banks of the Dabra river near Hakma village,” Indrajeet Baidha, the sub-divisional police officer (SDPO) of Madhaura, said. After the allegations, the then investigating officer Shivnath Ram arrested two persons, including a woman on the charge of murder." "As it was a missing link, I changed the investigating officer of the case and handed over to Vikas Kumar, the SHO of the Bheldi police station. The department has also recommended an inquiry against former investigating officer Shivnath Ram’s shoddy probe.

Source: dna December 27, 2020 11:12 UTC