Family turns hostile, 2 acquitted in bizman's suicide case

THERE is an adage that forgetting a lost loved one is part of the natural process. But it is true even in the case of the abetment to commit suicide of a loved one, as all family members of the deceased -- wife, daughter, brother and sisters -- turned hostile, resulting in the acquittal of the two accused.

- YATHIRAJU@Bengaluru

Though the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) confirmed the handwriting on the death note was of a businessman who died by suicide, the family members didn't, for reasons best known to them, leading the accused, Kodanda Murthy and Lakshminarayan, to be freed from charges of abetment to suicide.

"It is pertinent to note that the wife, daughter, brother and sisters of the deceased, who were admittedly on good terms with the deceased prior to his death, have not identified the handwriting of the deceased on the death note or the sample handwriting of the deceased, which are said to have been sent to FSL for handwriting comparison," said Judge Rashmi M, 67th Additional City Civil and Sessions Court, acquitting the accused recently.