Being Wife of an Alleged Extremist and Present at the Encounter Site With a Child Cannot Justify Conviction Without Proof of an Overt Act: Jharkhand High Court
The Jharkhand High Court has acquitted Pramila Devi in a criminal appeal arising out of a 2004 police encounter case in Gumla district. The Court held that merely because she was present at the place of occurrence with her one-and-a-half-year-old daughter and happened to be the wife of an alleged extremist, she could not be held guilty without clear and convincing evidence proving her active involvement in the offences. The…
