Fan Motor Used in Murder Sets Free the Killer

Hyderabad: Falaknuma police had in August 2017 arrested a 30-year-old man for killing his live-in partner by hitting her head with a fan motor. Six years later, he was set free by a city court as the fan motor was not sent for forensic analysis, totally missing a vital piece of evidence in the case.

"There is no direct clinching evidence to connect the accused with the offence. The available scientific evidence does not connect the accused with the death of the deceased," ruled the court, which acquitted him recently.

The PME report found that the woman died of a head injury, following which the police arrested the accused.

Police seized a blood-stained fan motor. They collected the blood stains from it and from the bed where the woman’s body was found and also mud samples from there.

Forensic tests detected human blood in the clothes and other materials that were seized but their blood group could not be determined. The court pointed out that the investigators had failed to compare the blood found on the clothes of the accused with the clothes of the deceased and on the seized material.

The fan motor was not sent for scientific examination. It could not be ascertained whether all the blood stains belonged to the deceased woman, the court pointed out.