Now Reading: Patna High Court orders further probe into retired professors’ murder
-
01
Patna High Court orders further probe into retired professors’ murder
The Patna High Court has directed Bihar Police to conduct further investigation into the 2023 murder of two retired professors, observing that one victim suffered 24 incised wounds, making a sole-assailant theory…
The Story in Brief
The Patna High Court has directed Bihar Police to conduct further investigation into the 2023 murder of two retired professors, observing that one victim suffered 24 incised wounds, making a sole-assailant theory doubtful. Justice Jitendra Kumar noted the nature of injuries pointed to a strong possibility that more than one person was involved. The court, however, allowed the ongoing trial against the only charge-sheeted accused, Tapan Dey alias Deepak Kumar, to continue as 12 of 14 prosecution witnesses have already been examined.
Livelaw.in reports that the daughter of the deceased couple, Rakshita Singh, sought the probe, arguing that the murders of Mahendra Prasad Singh and Dr Pushpa Singh, both aged around 70, could not have been carried out by one person. The state did not oppose the request. The court held that closing the investigation after filing a charge-sheet against only one accused was not justified.
The Indian Opinion
The court’s order cuts through a familiar narrative: that police always zero in on the easiest suspect and call it a day. Here, the 24 stab wounds on one victim alone make the single-accused theory implausible on its face. Yet the trial continues, a sensible balance. The concrete test now: will further investigation name additional assailants, or will it merely confirm officers’ original beliefs? The number of wounds demands an answer, not a guess.
Source: livelaw.in
This story was synthesised by AI from the source linked above.
