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Bejai Raja Murder case : Court acquits all accused


Mangalore Today News Network

Mangaluru, Oct 17, 2018  :  All the 16 persons who were named accused in the Bejai Raja murder case  have been acquitted by the first Additional Sessions Court on October 16, Tuesday.

 

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The murder had taken place at Falnir  on December 1, 2012. Of the 16 accused three had died during the trial period.  There were a total of 30 witnesses in the case.

The accused were acquitted on the grounds that the prosecution failed to prove the charges against them.

Two more accused in the case were yet to be arrested. The slain Bejai Raja who was named an accused in the Panduranga Pai alias Pandu Pai murder case  was later  acquitted by the court.