Woman acquitted of child's murder, but gets 3-yr RI for destroying evidence

THANE: (Dec 6) A Thane court has acquitted a woman of murdering a 9-year-old girl in 2019, but sentenced her and a co-accused to three years' rigorous imprisonment for destroying evidence related to the child's death.

The postmortem report does not indicate the cause of the girl's death, as the body was found in a decomposed condition. Therefore, it clearly appears that the prosecution failed to prove how the girl died, Additional Sessions Judge AS Bhagwat said in the judgment on Thursday.