New Delhi, January 29: A Delhi court today acquitted a man, accused of setting ablaze his tenant in 2004 after the victim refused to give him a bottle of liquor, saying the dying declaration was not reliable.
Additional Sessions Judge J R Aryan doubted the veracity of the statement given by the victim to the doctor and the investigating officer before his death.
“In the absence of a certificate from a doctor that the victim, who was brought with 95 per cent burn injuries, was in a fit mental and physical condition to record his statement, the dying declaration cannot be relied,” the court said.
It absolved Mohd Ahmed, a resident of Govindpuri here, of the charge of killing his tenant Amar Singh on the evening of April 6, 2004.
–Agencies