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Lt. Governor VK Saxena has approved the filing of a petition in the Supreme Court challenging the decision to acquit three convicts in the 2012 Chawla rape-and-murder case, who were sentenced to death by a lower court, officials said on Monday. Saxena has approved the involvement of Solicitor General Tushar Mehta to represent the Delhi government in the case, a senior official said. A trial court awarded death sentence to the three for the gruesome rape and murder of a 19-year-old woman in Delhi’s Dwarkar Chawla on February 9, 2012, which was upheld by the Delhi High Court.
They appealed against the sentence in the Supreme Court which in its judgment on November 7, 2022 set aside the orders of the trial court and the High Court. “The LG has allowed the three accused to file a review petition in the Supreme Court against its acquittal decision,” said a senior Delhi government official.
The SC’s acquittal prompted the 19-year-old woman’s parents to seek police protection out of fear, officials said.
The acquittal of the accused Women’s rights activists criticized the decision, saying it would embolden the accused, sparking widespread outrage. While acquitting the three, the Supreme Court held that the law does not permit the court to punish the accused on the basis of moral culpability or mere suspicion.
The court observed that the acquittal or acquittal of the accused involved in the heinous crime may create a kind of anguish and despair in the society in general and in the victim’s family in particular.
The bench said the prosecution had failed to provide leading, strong, clinching and clear evidence against the accused, including DNA profiling and Call Detail Record (CDR), and said the trial court had also acted as a passive umpire.
According to the prosecution, the woman was a resident of Uttarakhand and worked at Cyber City in Gurgaon. He was returning from his work and was near his home when three men picked him up in a car. When she did not return home, her parents filed a missing persons report, the prosecution said, adding that the woman’s mutilated and decomposing body was found in a village in Haryana’s Rewari.
Police found multiple injuries on the woman’s body. Further investigation and autopsy revealed that she was attacked with car tools, glass bottles, metal objects and other weapons. They said that she was also raped. Police arrested three people in connection with the crime and said the accused allegedly retaliated after a woman rejected his proposal.
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