The parents of the 19-year-old Uttarakhand girl who was gangraped and killed in Delhi’s Chhawla area ten years ago filed a review petition on Monday in the Supreme Court against its judgment that acquitted all the three accused persons. Their petition was also backed by the Uttarakhand Bachao Movement.
Delhi LG VK Saxena had cleared the files for filing review petition by the Delhi Police against the gruesome murder of the girl, whose body was found at Chhawla in 2012.
“This Hon’ble Court erred in holding that the entire prosecution case falls flat because the accused were neither identified in the depositions nor any Test Identification Parade was conducted on the accused.
“It is submitted that the instant is a case of circumstantial evidence and not direct evidence, and the circumstances in the instant case conclusively prove that the offences of kidnapping, rape and murder of the victim were done by the accused only,” said the review petition filed by advocate Pranav Sachdev.
“The court erred in coming to the conclusion that the non-examination of the beat constables created serious doubts about circumstances under which the accused were arrested and the car was seized,” the petition said.
The trial court and the High Court had convicted the accused with the death sentence. But the Supreme Court acquitted them citing lack of evidence and glaring faults from prosecution and investigation.
