New Delhi: A Court here on Monday deferred
till tomorrow its verdict in the Dhaula Kuan gangrape case in
which a 20-year-old Delhi University girl was abducted and
allegedly gangraped in a moving car four years ago.
Additional Sessions Judge Neeraj Kumar Gupta said he
would deliver the verdict tomorrow in the case in which only
one of the accused could be arrested. Earlier on November 30
too, the court had deferred the verdict pronouncement.
The DU student, hailing from Mizoram, was abducted at
around 2.15 am on May 8, 2005 while she was walking back home
after buying food from a roadside eatery along with a friend
and was raped by four accused in a moving car near Dhaula Kuan
in South Delhi, the prosecution had said in its argument.
Her friend, somehow, managed to escape from the spot.
The victim was later dumped near a Gurudwara in the
area.
Police, however, could arrest only one of the accused --
Ajit Singh Katiyar. The other three accused -- Danda, Jat and
Tappe -- have evaded arrest and were declared proclaimed
offenders during the trial.
Thirty one witnesses were examined by the prosecution.
Manoj Sharma, Katiyar`s counsel, had examined three
witnesses and claimed that the charges against his client were
framed up saying that policemen, probing the case, have given
contradictory statements regarding the date and place of
arrest of the accused.
Katiyar, a driver with a Noida-based call centre, was
arrested five days after the incident and was later identified
by the victim in a test identification parade conducted
inside Tihar Jail.
PTI
