Madhya Pradesh HC Acquits Ex-Army Man Of Murder Charge After He Spends 14-Years In Jail

Men’s Rights Are Human Rights. However, often atrocities on Men are looked upon as mere statistics, while every injustice to women becomes a patriarchal, misogynyst and women’s rights issue.

45-year-old Balveer Singh Yadav, a resident of Bharrad village in Morena and his friend Radheshyam Yadav had been arrested for the murder of one Surendra Rajput, a resident of Banmore in the same district.

Balveer was convicted by a district and sessions court while his friend Radheshyam was acquitted. Yadav was awarded life imprisonment 14-years-ago.

Now shockingly after the man completed his sentence in jail, he has been declared innocent by Madhya Pradesh Gwalior bench High Court. Atul Gupta, the lawyer of Balveer Singh Yadav, quoted to Hindustan Times,

Yadav completed the jail term of 14 years and the state government was going to give him benefit of remission on January 26, 2021 (Republic Day) but before his release, the MP high court’s, Gwalior bench declared him innocent on January 15.

A bench of the court comprising judges Anand Pathak and Vishal Mishra, in its judgment delivered on Friday, ruled,

Regretfully appellant’s 14-years which otherwise he could have served the nation as army personnel cannot be returned back, but certainly he can be given solace by removing stigma of an accused from him; therefore this court proceeded to conclude its findings on merits.

The order stated,

It is concluded that prosecution wasn’t able to prove the case beyond reasonable doubt and there are material contradictions, omissions and discrepancies {that} crept into the case of {the} prosecution. It is the duty of prosecution to prove the case beyond reasonable doubt and here eyewitness account, dying declaration, evidence nowhere [were] sufficient to conclude that Balveer committed offence.

In the absence of motive, rely on the evidence of last seen conviction cannot be maintained. On such doubtful pretext, appellant couldn’t have been convicted. Appellant is directed to be released.

Balveer Singh said,

I was made accused just because I was seen with Surendra Yadav before his death. I am happy that stigma of being a murderer has been removed but I lost my job, pride and important 14 years.

My trust on judiciary has increased but I will request the central government and judiciary to fix the time limit for a judgment of any case because it was very tough for me to take punishment for a crime which I never committed.

While entire Bollywood was and is outraging against the arrest of Rhea Chakraborty who spent a month in jail, they often overlook the grave injustice several Men in our country have been facing over the decades.

Surely, you cannot expect all to demonstrate their angst against every single case, however, painting Rhea’s arrest under the garb of #SmashThePatriarchy was a well planned PR exercise using her gender to create sympathy.

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