Court convicts man for murdering grandmother

New Delhi [India], September 26 : Delhi's Rohini court has convicted a man for allegedly murdering his own grandmother and committing robbery in a society in Rohini in December of 2015.
The convict, along with one of his minor friends, had committed the murder and robbed cash and jewellery.
A shawl was used for strangulating the 74-year-old woman, Kailashwati Jain. The victim suffered an injury to the head. Her husband lodged an FIR in Prashant Vihar police station.
Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Shefali Sharma convicted accused Harshit Jain for murder, robbery and other offences. While convicting the accused, the court considered the CCTV footage, forensic evidence and statement of the prosecution witness.
The accused, Harshit Jain, is held guilty and is convicted for the offences under section 302 IPC and also under sections 392 (robbery), 394 (robbery with a deadly weapon), and 397 (caused injury while committing robbery) IPC.
The court said that the presence of the accused on the spot and his entry and exist as proved in the CCTV footage at the relevant time are clearly visible.
On the motive aspect, the court said that the accused had the motive to commit robbery, as is
proved by the prosecution witness that the jewellery articles, cash, and artificial jewellery were found missing.
The court also considered the recovery of weapon of offence. It said that there was recovery of the metal jug, which was the weapon of offence, upon the disclosure of the accused from inside the house, which is not a common public place.
While referring to the DNA analysis report, the court said that it is sufficient to conclude that DNA profile generated from the ligature material is similar to DNA profile generated from the blood-stained papers recovered from the possession of the accused Harshit Jain and the metallic
jug, which was recovered at the instance of the accused, Harshit Jain, from the kitchen of the house where the murder had taken place.
The court further said, "The conduct of the accused post-occurrence was that he tried to go to the park and have a walk and gave juice, which was highly improbable and contrary to the CCTV footage in which he was seen along with the other co-accused and then hiding in the public toilet."
The court also said that there was no reason for false implication of the accused by the own family members at the time of the investigation of the case, as he was the grandson of the deceased and it is highly improbable that all the family members would give their statement to falsely implicate the accused.
"Thus, all the circumstances as proved by the prosecution beyond reasonable doubt point only towards the guilt of the accused and no other hypothesis is possible. The circumstances proved are conclusive in nature and complete the chain of events," ASJ Shefali Sharma held in the judgement.
On June 10, 2016, the court had framed charges against accused Harshit Jain under Section 302 IPC 392/394 and 397 IPC against the accused for robbing of the cash and jewellery articles by using a knife and a jug and strangulating the deceased for the commission of the offence.
The other accused was declared juvenile as per his date of birth.