Kolkata: Three persons sentenced to death for a murder and disorganized for the last 11 years, acquitted by the Calcutta High Court on Thursday, deciding that the prosecution had failed to decide in the murder of a 28-year-old woman, whose severed bodies were found at Sealdah railway station in 2014.A division bench by Justice Debangsu Basak and MD Shabbar Rashidi said there was no evidence to join the three accused – the woman’s husband and two others – the murder.There is no evidence that any of the 3 accused had a crime place: HC His presence in the scene of crime at the relevant time is not strongly proved, Calcutta HC conducted. On the morning of May 20, 2014, the chopped body parts of Jayati Deb were found in the parking area of Sealdah station, some were wrapped in a quilt and some were filled in a trolley bag. While investigating the case, the government railway police arrested her husband Surgered Deb, her girlfriend Lipika Podar and a Sanjaj Biswas. Surgered and Lipika were accused of killing and hiring Sanj to settle the body.On April 21, 2015, allegations were made against the three. In 2019, a sealdah court found him guilty of murder, destruction of evidence and criminal conspiracy, and sentenced to death.The High Court bench overturned the verdict. HC noticed that there was “heavy evidence” that had gone out of his matrimonial house with his daughter before a safe crime, and was living elsewhere with Lipika. There was no evidence that any of the three accused was in the area around the crime site around the date of the incident, the court said, all three were acquitted. The bench said, “The prosecution had failed disappointing to bring home the allegations made in the trial against the appellants, sufficient to secure their convicts, beyond all appropriate doubts.”The trial court order was based on Sanjay’s ‘confession’, which he later left behind.
