Defence counsel for Mukesh, one of the four adult accused in the brutal Delhi gang rape case, filed a petition for the transfer of the case on Wednesday as he believed that his client would not get justice in the national capital. Manohar Lal Sharma, who is the defence counsel for Mukesh said that he believed that his client is unlikely to get justice in New Delhi. “The kids are innocent and the police had spared the actual accused. We have filed a transfer petition in Supreme Court that we would not get justice in Delhi at any cost.
Our petitioners, client should be taken outside Delhi and the matter should be questioned and there should be re-investigation in the case,” said Sharma. Delhi High Court had earlier passed an order to allow media to cover the day-to-day trial in the December 16 gang-rape case, which spurred nationwide protests demanding strict laws for crime against women. Earlier, the trial of the case which used to take place behind closed doors of the court after the Delhi High Court imposed a ban on the media coverage with the incident becoming highly sensitive in wake of the huge outcry and protests across the country.
The court also ordered the press not to disclose the name of the victim, her family members or witnesses. In a dramatic twist to the case, the driver of the bus Ram Singh hanged himself in New Delhi”s Tihar jail. The trial of the other accused persons is being conducted at a special fast-track court in New Delhi while a minor is being tried before the Juvenile Justice Board in the case. The 23-year-old para-medical student was raped and beaten with an iron bar by five men and a teenager on a moving bus last year in December and she died of internal injuries two weeks later. (ANI)