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Missing MBBS student case: Case hinges on rare Evidence Act section
Updated On: 31 March, 2023 06:09 AM IST | Mumbai | Faizan Khan
As they prepare to file charge sheet in MBBS student’s murder case based on just circumstantial evidence, crime branch to put burden of proof on the accused
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Mithu Singh, the main accused who was last seen with the missing woman; (right) his friend Abdul Jabbar Ansari, co-accused in the case
The crime branch of the Mumbai police is in the process of filing the charge sheet in connection with the alleged murder of an MBBS student, who was reported missing in November 2021. Officers will invoke rarely used Section 106 of the Indian Evidence Act, which means the accused will have to prove their innocence in court, said officers. The case will rely solely on the “last seen together” theory. The charge sheet will be based on circumstantial evidence, as the bloodstains found on the buoy ring, belonging to main accused Mithu Singh, did not match with the DNA samples taken from the woman’s father, officers told mid-day.
The MBBS student, a resident of Boisar who was 22 at the time, has been missing since November 29, 2021. She had left for her exams in Byculla; however, she disembarked at Andheri station and took a train to Bandra, where she arrived at 12.46 pm. She took an auto-rickshaw to Bandstand and switched off her phone. She was last seen at approximately 2.30 am, when Singh clicked two selfies with her. Before that, she went to his eatery, Meeth’s Kitchen, for a meal.
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