Summary:
Madurai, Jan 24 (PTI) The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has acquitted a mentally unsound, unemployed man held on the charge of murdering his father in 2015 by observing that a trial court had not considered his medical history - paranoid schizophrenia - in this case in proper perspective.
A Division Bench of Justices S Vaidyanathan and G Jayachandran passed the acquittal order recently while allowing a criminal appeal from K Durairaj of Tiruchirappally.
According to the prosecution, Durairaj killed his father Kuppusamy by throwing a grinding stone on his head.
The local police had arrested him and booked him for murder.
Though the Principal Sessions Judge in Tiruchirappally was told the accused was suffering from mental illness (paranoid schizophrenia), the judge did not attach much importance to this and awarded life imprisonment to Durairaj in January, 2018.
Challenging this, the accused preferred the present criminal appeal.