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Seventeen years after conviction, Calcutta High Court acquits woman in nephew’s death case

Kolkata, Sep 9 (UNI) Seventeen years after a woman was accused of killing her one-and-a-half-year-old nephew, the Calcutta High Court has acquitted her, ruling that suspicion, however strong, cannot substitute for proof.

A division bench comprising Justice Rajasekhar Mantha and Justice Ajay Kumar Gupta today overturned the lower court’s judgment that had sentenced the accused, Mona Naskar, to life imprisonment.

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