Terming the murder case as the ‘rarest of rare’ crimes, the Additional District Judge Court-2 held Sanjit Dash guilty and pronounced the death sentence on the basis of circumstantial, material, and medico-legal evidence.
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Terming the murder case as the ‘rarest of rare’ crimes, the Additional District Judge Court-2 held Sanjit Dash guilty and pronounced the death sentence on the basis of circumstantial, material, and medico-legal evidence.
The court also relied on the deposition of 15 witnesses, including the statement of the convict’s minor daughter, who was the witness to her mother being stabbed to death.
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The convict, a drug addict, frequently abused his wife, Saraswati Dash, mentally and physically. The domestic violence spree took a fateful and tragic turn on midnight of 22 June 2022, when, in a fit of rage, Dash stabbed Saraswati 33 times with a kitchen knife.
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