Ahmedabad court refuses bail to engineering diploma student who killed a man, brought body to police station
The accused submitted that he was abducted by the victim and he committed the murder in self-defence.
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The court noted that the accused received a single superficial cut wound, whereas, the deceased received 21 wounds caused by the weapon, making for a tenuous case for self-defence as claimed by the accused. (File) An Ahmedabad rural court Wednesday rejected the regular bail application of an 18-year-old engineering diploma student who allegedly killed a 22-year-old man and brought the body in his car to the Sola police station in Ahmedabad.
The accused, Vedant Raja, a first-year electrical engineering diploma student at Silver Oak University, was arrested by the police on October 15 after registering an FIR against him under Indian Penal Code (IPC) Section 302 (murder) for killing the victim, Swapnil Prajapati.
Arguing for bail, the accused submitted before the court that the deceased was a habitual consumer of alcohol and drugs and was also involved in some gambling activities and that the victim was under the impression that Raja belonged to a wealthy family and would thus, time and again borrow money from him.
According to Raja’s submission, when he started refusing Swapnil’s demand for money, and three days before the incident, Swapnil had allegedly abducted Raja from his hostel while demanding money. However, Raja submitted that he failed to pay the money as demanded by Swapnil, following which the latter assaulted Raja and also attacked him with a ‘gupti’ (dagger).
Raja submitted that fearing for his own life, he attacked Swapnil in self-defence. The court, however, concluded that “prima facie, it “does not look like a case of self-defence”. The court further took into consideration that the accused himself went to the police station along with the body of the deceased and surrendered himself.
“There is no doubt as to involvement of the accused in the offence in question.”
Additionally, the court noted that the accused received a single superficial cut wound, whereas, the deceased received 21 wounds caused by the weapon, making for a tenuous case for self-defence as claimed by the accused.
”Even the allegations that the accused was confined for past three days are not believable at this stage, as the car in which the accused was moving around belongs to him..,” the court further observed while rejecting his bail plea.
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