Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami stated on Tuesday that he spoke to Union regulation minister Kiren Rijiju and guaranteed justice for a 19-year-old rape sufferer who hailed from the state, a day after the Supreme Courtroom acquitted three males sentenced to demise for her 2012 gang rape and homicide.
Chatting with information company ANI, Dhami stated the sufferer was the daughter of the state and nation, and that he’ll do every thing to make sure she received justice.
“I’ve spoken to advocate Charu Khanna, who’s dealing with the case and union regulation minister Kiren Rijiju relating to the Supreme Courtroom’s resolution of acquitting the three accused in 2012 Chhawla rape case. The sufferer is the daughter of our nation and we’ll do every thing to make sure that she will get justice,” Dhami informed ANI.
On Monday, a three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Uday Umesh Lalit acquitted the three accused, citing obvious lapses within the investigation and trial of the case. “Having regard to the totality of circumstances and the proof on report, it’s troublesome to carry that the prosecution had proved the guilt of the accused by adducing cogent and clinching proof,” the CJI noticed.
On February 9, 2012, the lady, who hailed from Uttarakhand’s Pauri Garhwal district and labored with a personal firm in Gurugram’s Cyber Metropolis, had received off a bus at Qutub Vihar, a mere 10-walk away from her home at Chhawla Camp, and was strolling residence with two mates, when she was waylaid and kidnapped by the occupants of a purple Tata Indica automobile.
Days later, the lady’s physique was present in a discipline at Rodhai village in Haryana’s Rewari district, with a number of accidents and burn marks. An post-mortem revealed she was attacked with automobile instruments, glass bottles and sharp metallic objects.
Three alleged accused — Rahul, Ravi and Vinod — had been convicted and the awarded the demise sentence by a metropolis courtroom on February 19, 2014. The judgment of the trial courtroom was upheld by the Delhi excessive courtroom on August 26 the identical 12 months, noting the brutal method through which the physique was mutilated earlier than and after the lady was kidnapped and raped, referring to the accused as “educated blood hounds choosing out a scent”.
The surprising acquittal stoked politics.
Former chief minister and senior Congress chief Harish Rawat tweeted, “Like Nirbhaya rape and homicide case, it was a ugly homicide case. On the a part of medical reviews, all proof, the place did the federal government lapse that these ought to have been hanged had been acquitted by the Supreme Courtroom. We will’t consider it. Nicely, it’s an apex courtroom order.”
The lady’s household on Monday expressed shock over the decision. “For greater than 10 years, we fought within the courts, hoping that our daughter will get justice. However after the Supreme Courtroom’s resolution to acquit all three accused, we’ve misplaced our religion within the judiciary… We have now additionally misplaced the need to dwell,” stated the lady’s father.