The Court awarded the lesser sentence of life imprisonment after observing that Kumar was about 23 years at the time of the crime and that he had a one-year-old daughter and wife.
Rajasthan DGP Umesh Mishra along with five SPs had to present themselves in court in the matter of hearing on missing children in the state.The officers appeared before the bench of judges Pankaj Bhandari and Bhuvan Goyal on Tuesday.The .
Reversing the burden of evidence means that the principle of innocent until proven guilty does not apply.
It is exactly the opposite: Guilty as charged, until you can convince the judges of the contrary, points out Shekhar Gupta.
Unconvinced by the prosecution’s case, a division bench of Justices Pankaj Bhandari and Sameer Jain had acquitted the 4 accused and flagged a “botched investigation” caused by “institutional failure”.