Court raps cops for shoddy probe in murder case
Mumbai: A sessions court pulled up police for a shoddy probe while granting bail to a Wadala man accused of beating his wife to death in March this year following a dispute over liquor consumption.Additional sessions judge Ganesh P Deshmukh observed that Mahesh Wad (34) had been in custody since March 18 and that the investigation record contained several shortcomings relevant to the consideration of his bail application.The court noted that police failed to record the statements of close relatives of both the man and the wife as well as those of witnesses of the alleged assault. It said the chargesheet didn’t have the postmortem examination report and only a provisional cause of death certificate was placed on record.
