“Aditya Sachdeva murder case: Patna HC overturns conviction of former JD(U) MLC’s son Rocky Yadav and two others, accused walk free for ‘lack of evidence’”, Opindia, July 21, 2023:
“On Wednesday, July 19, Patna High Court acquitted Rocky Yadav, the son of former JD(U) MLC Manorama Devi, and two others convicted in 2017 for murdering an 18-year-old boy named Aditya Sachdeva in a road rage incident in 2016.
A high court bench comprising Justice AM Badar and Justice Harish Kumar on Wednesday allowed the accused Rakesh Ranjan Yadav alias Rocky, Rajiv Kumar alias Teni Yadav, and Rajesh Kumar the ‘benefit of doubt’.
“Benefit of doubt as the prosecution has failed to establish their guilt by adducing clear, cogent, trustworthy and clinching evidence. All of the appellants are acquitted of the charges levelled against them, which the learned trial court found to be proved against them. They be set at liberty forthwith if not required in any other case,” the court ruled…..”
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