Chandigarh: It took 30 years for Jasbir Singh to get justice who was finally acquitted by judicial magistrate Atul Marya today.
Pronouncing the orders, the court observed that the case file could not be traced. Thus, the court had to depend on supplementary challan to pronounce the orders. Interestingly, the court proceedings were recorded in urdu. Complainant Shiv Singh handed over his passport and a sum of Rs 30,000 to 52-year-old Jasbir Singh for going to Dubai. Another person, Avad Kishore, gave Rs 6,000 and his passport too.
After sometime, Jasbir returned everyone’s passport except that of Shiv Singh and Avad Kishore. The two went to Jasbir on July 4, 1978, and demanded that their passports be given back. The complainant alleged Jasbir took him to a house in Sector 34 and assaulted him with a hockey stick with the intention of killing him.
As Jasbir, a resident of Kapurthala, was booked under TADA, trial in the case was slow. Later, the case file also went missing.
Defence counsel Harish Bhardwaj said: “I got this case in 1999 and till date five judges have heard the case.” The court had directed the record keeper to trace the file of the case in August 4, 1999.
Source: TNS