The Supreme Court is probably going to take into account on Thursday as many as 5 petitions seeking review of its verdict acquitting three death row convicts within the gangrape and homicide case of a 19-year-old woman in Chhawla space right here in 2012.
A bench comprising Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud and justices S. Ravindra Bhat and Bela M. Trivedi will decide by circulation in chambers the destiny of the 5 review petitions at 1.50 p.m. on March 2.
According to the listing of enterprise uploaded on the apex court docket web site, the review pleas are listed for consideration on Thursday.
The high court docket, on February 8, had agreed to represent a three-judge bench to take into account pleas for a review of its verdict acquitting the three death row convicts within the sensational case.
Besides the Delhi authorities, the daddy of the sufferer, Uttarakhand Bachao Movement and Uttarakhand Lok Manch have sought the review of the judgement.
In 2012, the three accused had allegedly gangraped the woman, murdered her and mutilated her physique with a screwdriver and different weapons. The trial court docket had awarded them death sentence and the excessive court docket upheld it in August 2014.
The apex court docket put aside the excessive court docket order and acquitted them of the offences in November final 12 months, sparking a debate on the verdict.
Except the plea seeking review of a judgement awarding death penalty to a convict, such petitions are thought of and determined in chambers.
The sufferer’s father, in his review petition filed by way of lawyer Rohit Dandriyal, sought reversal of the acquittal verdict saying, “this court has erred in observing that the case being purely dependent upon the circumstantial evidences, the prosecution failed to prove the circumstances beyond reasonable doubt and failed to prove the identity of the accused persons…” On December 8 final 12 months, Delhi Police had moved the highest court docket seeking a review of its acquittal verdict, saying the offence was “diabolic in nature exhibiting grave depravity and bestiality” and fell beneath the “rarest of rare” class.
An FIR was registered on January 26, 2023 with the Dwarka (North) police station and Vinod arrested following the investigation.
While acquitting the three convicts, the Supreme Court, on November 7 final 12 months, had mentioned the regulation doesn’t allow courts to punish an accused on the premise of ethical conviction or on suspicion alone.
It had mentioned the prosecution failed to present main, cogent, clinching and clear proof, together with these associated to DNA profiling and name element information (CDRs), in opposition to the accused, and mentioned the trial court docket additionally acted as a “passive umpire”.
The physique of the 19-year-old, who labored in Cyber Hub, Gurgaon, was discovered three days after she was kidnapped. According to the prosecution, she belonged to Uttarakhand and was getting back from her office.
When she didn’t return house, her mother and father lodged a lacking individual report, the prosecution mentioned, including that the girl’s mutilated and decomposing physique was present in a village in Rewari, Haryana.
The police discovered a number of accidents on the physique. Further investigation and post-mortem revealed she was attacked with automobile instruments, glass bottles, steel objects, and different weapons. She was additionally raped, police mentioned.
Police arrested the three males allegedly concerned within the crime and claimed one of them took revenge after the girl spurned his advances.
