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2005 Supreme(Del) 315

D.K.JAIN, A.K.SIKRI
STATE – Appellant
Versus
TIKA RAM – Respondent


Advocates Appeared:
R.K.SONKIYA, RAJDEEP BEHURA, Rajesh Mahajan

A. K. SIKRI, J.

( 1 ) LOHRI is a famous festival of Hindus. It is celebrated every year on 13th january. Like many other Hindu festivals, it also has religious fervour and traces to hindu mythology. On 13th January, 1996, people in Delhi celebrated Lohri the traditional way by burning heaps of woods and putting flames. However, before these flames could even die down, it became pyre (symbolically) of innocent family of sharmas who were living in C-1/1396, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi. Same night, all four members of this family along with their servant were brutally murdered. The family consisted of Sh. S. P. Sharma, his wife Mrs. Shobha, two young children in their youth, namely, daughter Ms. Charu, aged 20 years and son Punit, aged about 15 years. The servant Dinesh was an adolescent boy aged about 9-10 years. In fact the family was having two servants. The name of other servant is Tika Ram. When the gruesome killings were discovered after breaking open the flat of Sharmas, Tika Ram was nowhere to be seen. The needle of suspicion, therefore, naturally, pointed towards tika Ram and the police started investigating the crime with this focus in mind. Ultimately, Tika Ram was apprehended;



























































































































































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