THRISSUR: The judicial magistrate court here on Tuesday acquitted Devinder Singh alias Bunty Chor of all the charges in a vehicle theft case charged in Thrissur holding that there were “a lot of incompatibilities” in the material brought by the police on record which the prosecution failed to explain properly.
While reading out the acquittal order, Judicial First Class Magistrate G Mahesh held that the prosecution failed to produce materials evidence to prove the charges slapped on Devinder in the charge-sheet.
In the prosecution case filed at the Ollur Police station, he was accused of stealing a vehicle from the house of Joseph Pontekkan at Kuriachira near Ollur in Thrissur. But, the police failed to produce any eyewitness or other circumstantial evidences, to prove the charges levelled against him, at the court. Though the stolen car was found abandoned in Coimbatore, the police didn’t identify Devinder’s fingerprint on the car. Devinder will not appoint any counsel on his behalf to appear before the court. It is the Legal Service Society that often come to the rescue of Devinder by providing legal assistance. When he was produced before the court the other day, he gave a note to the legal counsel arranged for him by the court, detailing the legal points to be presented before the court during the hearing. The sources in the police said it was the style of Devinder to give legal points to be presented, during the case trial, to the counsel appearing for him.
Devinder, who allegedly committed over 500 burglaries, was arrested in Pune on January 26 on charges of allegedly lifting a luxury car and some valuables from the house of an NRI businessman in Thiruvananthapuram after breaking the hi-tech security systems of the house including surveillance camera and intruder warning alarm. He was taken back to the central prison in Thiruvananthapuram as there were other cases charged against him in connection with the robbery in Thiruvananthapuram.