Bengaluru Police commissioner Pratap Reddy mentioned on Friday that the trial of the acid assault case reported within the metropolis final April has been delayed as no lawyer was coming ahead to characterize the accused. A quick-track trial was requested within the case.
Talking to the media, Reddy added that as per the legislation, if the accused was not represented and vakalat was not filed for him, the case wouldn’t proceed additional, and due to this fact they might not get bail. “If an advocate represents the accused, the court docket proceedings will transfer quicker, and he’ll get punishment quicker,” the commissioner mentioned.
The incident occurred on April 28, 2022. The accused, Nagesh Babu, ready in an autorickshaw close to the office of the 25-year-old lady in Bengaluru’s Sunkadakatte, chased and poured acid on her. The sufferer sustained 35% burn accidents.
The person had deliberate the same assault in 2020 and procured 9 litres of sulphuric acid, mentioned an investigator, including that he was arrested from Tiruvannamalai.
Police mentioned that when the accused got here to know that her sister was engaged, he feared that the sufferer would additionally get married quickly. The choice to assault her with acid was not impulsive, mentioned the cost sheet including that he had deliberate the same assault in 2020.
In keeping with police, he procured acid by April 20. Nevertheless, he didn’t assault her instantly. “He approached her as soon as once more on April 27. He requested her to marry him, and this time the lady firmly refused his proposal. That day even the supervisor of the corporate the place the lady was working, too, warned him to remain away. When the lady knowledgeable her mother and father about his go to, they approached the attacker’s older brother,” mentioned an investigator.
Following this, on April 28, he went to the sufferer’s office and attacked her with the pattern bottles he had procured. “Hours earlier than attacking her, he had bought all the fabric out there in his garment manufacturing unit and took money funds. We imagine that he had been planning this assault for a very long time. Just a few years in the past, he bought some land in his hometown and began a garment manufacturing unit in Bengaluru. Prior to now few months, he bought many of the gear within the manufacturing unit,” the officer added.
Policesaid that quickly after attacking the girl, he went to his older brother and informed him what had occurred. The older brother and one other pal informed Nagesh Babu to give up earlier than the police, however he informed them that he would give up solely earlier than the court docket. Along with his intention, he went to a periods court docket and Justice of the Peace court docket within the metropolis.
When the attorneys informed him that there isn’t a possibility out there for him to give up because the FIR had not reached the court docket, he fled Bengaluru, police mentioned.
A senior official of Bengaluru’s bar council who didn’t wish to be named mentioned they’ll speak to the police to make sure “the sufferer will get justice”.