A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Kafanchan, Kaduna State, on Thursday ordered that a 29-year-old man, Christopher Dauda, be remanded...
A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Kafanchan, Kaduna State, on Thursday ordered that a 29-year-old man, Christopher Dauda, be remanded in a correctional centre for allegedly burning his mother-in-law’s house.
The police charged Dauda with criminal trespass, mischief by fire with intent to destroy a house and attempt to commit culpable homicide. Chief Magistrate Abdulaziz Ibrahim, ordered that the accused be remanded in the Kafanchan Correctional facility.Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, Insp. Esther Bishen, told the court that the complaint, Asabe Andrew, who lives in Manchok, reported the matter at the Kaura Police Division on May 5.Bishen said that the complainant, who is the mother-in-law of the accused, alleged some people entered her house, locked the doors and set it ablaze while her son asleep in the building.
The offence, she said, contravened the provisions of sections 327, 322 and 189 of the Penal Code of Kaduna State, 2017.
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