Overview

• Ruma Begam Anwar Hussain Lashkar faced charges in the death of Kabir Ahmed Lashkar after his decomposed body was found in a locked Thane home in March 2018.
• Prosecution’s case depended solely on circumstantial proof such as mobile call data records and statements from the house landlord and his wife.
• Forensic tests detected human blood on a knife, brick and bedsheet but investigators could not link these items directly to the accused.
• Principal District and Sessions Judge S B Agrawal highlighted missing motive, absence of an identification parade and lack of eye-witness testimony as critical gaps.
• The acquittal underscores the judiciary’s requirement for corroborative evidence to establish guilt beyond reasonable doubt.