Ahmedabad : A sessions court was faced with a strange dilemma on Tuesday when a spirit' possessed a witness and tried to depose before judge. Additional sessions judge V M Chaudhary at Bhadra court had to adjourn a hearing on Tuesday afternoon, when a witness went into a trance and acted as if possessed by a ghost. The witness claimed to be possessed and then started making wild allegations.
Shanta Rai had deposed before the court on Tuesday morning in connection with a dowry death case, wherein her daughter Varsha had allegedly hanged herself in 2006 at her in-laws house in Bardolpura, Dariyapur.
Rai's husband too had given his statement in this case. But, when the couple was called in for cross-examination by the court in the afternoon, she suddenly started shivering and had a fit. She even started shouting in the court-room.
The judge asked policemen to take her out, but when she was approached, her pitch increased. She claimed she was possessed by a ghost and was able to see the circumstances in which her daughter died. Earlier too, in her statement she had told the court that Varsha's mother-in-law practised black magic to get her killed, said the public prosecutor in this case, Naresh Nandolia.
Ultimately, Rai was taken out of the courtroom, and after some time she calmed down. However, it was not possible to cross-examine her in this condition and the hearing was adjourned to January 27. "During my eight-year practice in this court, I witnessed such an incident for the first time," Nandolia said.
