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Jharkhand High Court has given its verdict in the murder case after 31 years. The court on Friday ordered the release of three convicts who were sentenced to life imprisonment in a murder case over a dispute of just Rs 200 in Deoghar district. Hearing the appeal filed by Kishan Pandit, Jamadar Pandit, Lakhan Pandit and Lakhi Pandit, the court has freed them from the case after 31 years of litigation. However, the convict Lakhan Pandit also died while the appeal was pending.
According to the information, the case is of December 3, 1993. There was a dispute over a small amount of Rs 200 in Jasidih police station area, after which Lakhan killed a person named Mahato.
Murdered for Rs 200
Police said that Lakhan had borrowed Rs 200 from Nunu Lal Mahato for agricultural work, but he could not repay the due time. In such a situation, when Mahato contacted him to repay the loan, an argument broke out between the two. The argument gradually escalated and the accused, including Lakhan, attacked, resulting in Muhto’s death. Nunu Lal Mahto’s son Bhairav was an eyewitness to the entire incident.
The court had convicted them in 1997
On the basis of Bhairav’s testimony, the police arrested Kishan Pandit, Jamadar Pandit and Lakhi Pandit. The three accused were convicted by the sessions court of Deoghar on June 6, 1997. An appeal was filed against this in the Patna High Court, which granted bail to all the accused. However, later after the division of the state, the case was transferred to the newly formed Jharkhand High Court in 2000, after which the case remained pending and the court has now given its verdict.
