Destiny is not re-written....

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Friends, just received this mail. Seems interesting . It is a perferct example of digging a grave for someone else and falling itself in it... Its also a perfect example of Destiny strinking - Honi prabal hai. I do not know whether this story is true or Not..

Murder / Suicide.. A VERY INTERESTING CASE .... At the 1994 annual awards dinner given for Forensic Science, AAFS President Dr Don Harper Mills astounded his audience withthe legal complications of a bizarre death.Here is the Case:On March 23, 1994 the medical examiner viewed the body of RonaldOpus and concluded that he died from a shotgun wound to thehead. Mr. Opus had jumped from the top of a ten-story buildingintending to commit suicide. He left a note to the effectindicating his despondency .As he fell past the ninth floor hislife was interrupted by a shotgun blast passing through awindow, which killed him instantly.Neither the shooter nor the deceased was aware that a safety nethad been installed just below the eighth floor level to protectsome building workers and that Ronald Opus would not have beenable to complete his suicide the way he had planned."Ordinarily," Dr Mills continued, "A person, who sets out tocommit suicide and ultimately succeeds, even though themechanism might not be what he intended, is still defined ascommitting suicide." That Mr. Opus was shot on the way tocertain death, but probably would not have been successfulbecause of the safety net, caused the medical examiner to feelthat he had a homicide on his hands.In the room on the ninth floor, where the shotgun blastemanated, was occupied by an elderly man and his wife. They werearguing vigorously and he was threatening her with a shotgun.The man was so upset that when he pulled the trigger hecompletely missed his wife and the pellets went through thewindow striking Mr. Opus. When one intends to kill subject "A"but kills subject "B" in the attempt, one is guilty of themurder of subject "B".When confronted with the murder charge the old man and his wifewere both adamant and both said that they thought the shotgunwas unloaded. The old man said it was a long-standing habit tothreaten his wife with the unloaded shotgun. He had no intentionto murder her.Therefore the killing of Mr. Opus appeared to be an accident;that is, if the gun had been accidentally loaded. The continuinginvestigation turned up a witness who saw the old couple's sonloading the shotgun about six weeks prior to the fatal accident.It transpired that the old lady had cut off her son's financialsupport and the son, knowing the propensity of his father to usethe shotgun threateningly, loaded the gun with the expectationthat his father would shoot his mother.Since the loader of thegun was aware of this, he was guilty of the murder even thoughhe didn't actually pull the trigger. The case now becomes one ofmurder on the part of the son for the death of Ronald Opus.Now comes the exquisite twist. Further investigation revealedhat the son was, in fact, Ronald Opus. He had becomeincreasingly despondent over the failure of his attempt toengineer his mother's murder. This led him to jump off theten-story building on March 23rd, only to be killed by a shotgunblast passing through the ninth story window. The son hadactually Murdered himself, so the medical examiner closed thecase as a suicide.A true story from Associated Press, Reported by Kurt Westervelt