An Uttarakhand court has convicted four people of murdering a Delhi couple in 2014, but they were acquitted of rape charges in the absence of evidence, government counsel Guruprasad Raturi said on Wednesday. The additional sessions court of Vikasnagar, 40km from Dehradun, pronounced the judgment on Tuesday and the quantum of punishment will be announced this Friday. Besides murder, the court held the four men guilty of hiding evidence and looting the couple — painter Abhijit Paul and his friend Momita Das, who were from Lado Sarai in New Delhi. Momita’s father lodged a complaint with Delhi police six days later and investigators traced her mobile phone’s location in Chakrata. A joint team of Delhi and Dehradun police arrested Raju on November 10, and he confessed to the crime, the charge sheet says.

Source: Hindustan Times March 28, 2018 18:00 UTC