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Mumbai court asks hospital to conduct test to determine accused age in murder case

Mumbai May 10 (UNI) A sessions court here has asked the dean of government-run Sir JJ Hospital to form a committee or board to conduct an ossification test of an accused booked for allegedly murdering a vice- president of HDFC Bank in 2018, a lawyer said here on Saturday.
Additional sessions judge AA Joglekar passed an order after the accused Saefafraz Shaikh moved the court stating that he was a minor at the time of the crime in 2018.
Over the past few months, the court has been conducting an inquiry into evidence available to ascertain whether the man was below 18 years of age when the crime took place.
On September 5, 2018, Siddharth Sanghvi, a 39-year-old vice-president with HDFC Bank, was reported missing after he did not return home from his workplace at Kamala Mills in Worli. His family approached the police and a search was conducted.
Five days later, his body was found in a hilly area in Thane district. The police arrested the accused for the murder, claiming that Sanghvi was killed with a motive of robbery.
The trial against the accused began in 2022. Mid-trial in January this year, the accused filed an application claiming that on the day of the offence, his age was 17 years, 1 month and 16 days. As proof, the accused submitted a school leaving certificate from a school in Uttar Pradesh.
The prosecution, however, opposed his plea stating that at the time of the probe, various documents were seized from the accused, including a driving licence, Aadhaar card, which showed that he was an adult, aged 20 in 2018.
The prosecution also brought on record another school leaving certificate, which was used to procure the driving licence, as it showed the accused as an adult.
Due to the discrepancy in the two school leaving certificates, the court issued summons to the school authorities, to ascertain which of the two was original.
Last month, the court examined as court witnesses, a school official and an education officer, both of whom were summoned from Uttar Pradesh.
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