The plea of Delhi gangrape accused has been allowed by the Delhi High court who have gangraped a 23 year old girl in December 16.<\/p>\n
In this plea an\u00a0evidence\u00a0which was as a CD containing\u00a0\u00a0the interview of the victim’s male friend given to a news channel has been presented<\/p>\n
Justice G P\u00a0Mittal\u00a0allowed the plea of accused\u00a0Ram Singh\u00a0and his brother\u00a0Mukesh\u00a0and set aside the trial court’s order by which they were not allowed to exhibit the CD of the interview telecast on January 4, as a piece of evidence.<\/p>\n
Justice Mittal directed the trial court to “permit the accused to use the CD as evidence”.<\/p>\n
The gangrape accused, in their plea, had challenged the trial court order which did not allow them to “exhibit, place on record and to play the impugned CD” on the ground that this was not an admissible piece of evidence.<\/p>\n
The high court had reserved its verdict in the case on March 5.<\/p>\n
Earlier, the\u00a0Delhi Police\u00a0had opposed the accused’ plea, saying the media interview of a witness is inadmissible evidence under the law.<\/p>\n
The police had objected to the plea of the accused to use the CD as an evidence on the ground that it has been prepared in violation of a CrPC provision that restrains media coverage of the trial and inquiry proceedings related to a rape case.<\/p>\n
On December 16 last, the 23-year-old victim was brutally gangraped and assaulted in a moving bus in south Delhi. She died in a Singapore hospital on December 29.<\/p>\n
Besides bus driver Ram Singh and his brother Mukesh, the three other adult accused facing trial in the case are Pawan Gupta, Vinay Sharma and Akshay Singh. The sixth accused, who has been declared as a juvenile, is facing trial before the\u00a0Juvenile\u00a0Justice Board.<\/p>\n
The trial court had on February 2 framed charges against the five accused under various sections of the IPC for offences which include gangrape, murder, attempt to murder, unnatural offences, dacoity, conspiracy and kidnapping.<\/p>\n
The trial court is hearing in-camera proceedings in the case on a day-to-day basis and has imposed a ban under the law on the media from reporting the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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