{"id":49751,"date":"2024-09-19T14:04:31","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T14:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/court-discharges-labourer-charged-with-theft-of-tanker-batteries\/"},"modified":"2024-09-19T14:04:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T14:04:31","slug":"court-discharges-labourer-charged-with-theft-of-tanker-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/court-discharges-labourer-charged-with-theft-of-tanker-batteries\/","title":{"rendered":"Court discharges labourer charged with theft of tanker batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A Karu Magistrates\u2019 Court in Abuja on Thursday discharged a 21-year-old labourer, Zaradeen Sani, charged with theft of four batteries worth N600,000.<\/p>\n<p>The Magistrate, Lami Ogohi discharged Sani, following an application by the prosecutor, Steven Osho, that the case be terminated due to lack of interest by the complainant, Mr Adoro Augustine.<\/p>\n<p>Sani who resides at Nape Junction Apo, Abuja, was charged with criminal trespass and theft.<\/p>\n<p>The Magistrate, while giving the judgment, said, \u201chaving heard the prosecution\u2019s application to terminate the suit for lack of interest by the complainant, the case is hereby struck out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe defendant is also discharged of all criminal charges and the First Information Report (FIR) is hereby withdrawn\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the prosecutor, told the court that the complainant reported the case at Apo Police Station on Aug. 4.<\/p>\n<p>He said that on the same date at 3.00 a.m, the defendant and two others now at large dishonestly trespassed into the complainant\u2019s house without his consent.<\/p>\n<p>He said the defendant stole four of the complainant\u2019s tanker batteries valued at N600,000 and ran to an unknown destination.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor said the defendant was later arrested.<\/p>\n<p>He said that during police investigation, the defendant made a confessional statement.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the confessional statement led to the recovery of two batteries.<\/p>\n<p>Osho told the court that the defendant\u2019s friends made away with the other batteries<\/p>\n<p>He said that the offences contravene Sections 79, 287 and 348 of the Penal Code.<\/p>\n<p>Court discharges labourer charged with theft of tanker batteries<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Karu Magistrates\u2019 Court in Abuja on Thursday discharged a 21-year-old labourer, Zaradeen Sani, charged with theft of four batteries&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[614,384,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-court","category-metro","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}