Bizarre: Youth nabbed due to Mistaken Identity released after 18 days

Wrongly arrested due to mistaken identity in a case of abetment to suicide, a 23-year-old man was released after spending eighteen days behind the bars.

Sumit Kumar, a factory worker, was released after a Police inquiry marked by the Commissioner of Police Rakes Agrawal found him to be a namesake of the actual accused & unjustly arrested due to this.

The inquiry was marked on the complaint of Sumit’s parents Seema & Sunil Kumar, who maintained that their son was innocent & falsely implicated.

Sumit was arrested on Sept 19 after the husband of one her cousins ended his life a day before. The deceased had named his wife & her paramour, also named Sumit, & the latter’s mobile number in his suicide note. The deceased had blamed the duo for driving him to suicide.

After being arrested, the deceased’s wife gave a false statement that the man caught by them, who was actually her cousin named Sumit, was the person mentioned in the suicide note.

But during the inquiry marked by the Police Chief, the woman was questioned & admitted to having falsely implicated her cousin, who was the namesake of her paramour to protect him.

Thereafter, Police submitted the inquiry report in Court, which led to the release of the 23-year-old. 

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