Killer gets life term, victim’s identity still unknown
5 Feb 2013 7:20 AM IST
Even as a Delhi court on Monday awarded life imprisonment till death to a serial killer for beheading and chopping off body parts of a man in 2007, the identity of the victim has not been established till date.
Additional Sessions Judge Kamini Lau pulled up Delhi Police for not putting ‘efforts’ to trace the family of the victim and directed the Commissioner of Police to ensure that the agency coordinates with its counterparts in Bihar to make efforts to establish the victim’s identity.
The court directed the concerned forensic authorities to preserve the DNA samples of the victim to establish his identity in future. It also said the police had filed the chargesheet in a ‘most casual and routine manner’ in the case.
‘Before ending, I may observe that the identity of the deceased in the present case whom the convict referred as Dalip and also being referred to as Dalip by the court, has not been established till date... ‘No efforts whatsoever made to trace out the family of the victim. This being the background, I hereby direct that the DNA material of the deceased (exhibits and results) be preserved. Further, the Commissioner of Police, Delhi, shall ensure that coordinated steps are taken along with their counterparts in Bihar so that efforts are made to establish the identity of the deceased,’ the judge said.
The court’s observations came while sentencing Chandrakant Jha, a native of Madhepura in Bihar, to life imprisonment till his death for murdering a person whom he used to call as Dalip days before 18 May, 2007.
Additional Sessions Judge Kamini Lau pulled up Delhi Police for not putting ‘efforts’ to trace the family of the victim and directed the Commissioner of Police to ensure that the agency coordinates with its counterparts in Bihar to make efforts to establish the victim’s identity.
The court directed the concerned forensic authorities to preserve the DNA samples of the victim to establish his identity in future. It also said the police had filed the chargesheet in a ‘most casual and routine manner’ in the case.
‘Before ending, I may observe that the identity of the deceased in the present case whom the convict referred as Dalip and also being referred to as Dalip by the court, has not been established till date... ‘No efforts whatsoever made to trace out the family of the victim. This being the background, I hereby direct that the DNA material of the deceased (exhibits and results) be preserved. Further, the Commissioner of Police, Delhi, shall ensure that coordinated steps are taken along with their counterparts in Bihar so that efforts are made to establish the identity of the deceased,’ the judge said.
The court’s observations came while sentencing Chandrakant Jha, a native of Madhepura in Bihar, to life imprisonment till his death for murdering a person whom he used to call as Dalip days before 18 May, 2007.
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