Rakesh Kumar vs State ( Nct Of Delhi) on 7 August, 2009
After prosecution evidence was closed, statement of accused
Rakesh Kumar Vs State
was recorded under Sec. 313 Cr. P. C and accused examined
one Raju in his defence as DW-1. Thereafter, final arguments
were advanced and the impugned judgment passed.
3 In the present appeal before this court, the
impugned judgment has been challenged inter-alia on the
grounds that the judgment is not supported by convincing
evidence and is based upon conjectures and surmises and is
illegal. It was mentioned in the appeal that benefit of doubt
which should have been given to the accused, had not been so
given. It was claimed that there was no corroboration to
testimony of ASI Dal Chand (PW-2) as there was no public
witness, who had been joined in investigation and examined. It
had been claimed that the accident was a blind accident
committed by someone else. Learned Trial Court having placed
reliance only on prosecution witnesses and not upon the
defence witness was also challenged. It was further claimed
that appellant was not driving the offending vehicle at the time
of accident and had not been caught at the spot and had been
falsely implicated.