New Delhi: A 15-year-old boy, appearing in defence of Vinay Sharma, showed a video recording to Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna pointing out that Vinay and co-accused Pawan Gupta in December 16 gang rape case, were present in the music function in south Delhi at the time of the incident.
A minor, who was made a witness by the accused to prove their innocence in December 16 gang rape case, produced before a court here a video clipping which showed that two of the four youths facing trial were present at the music function on the incident night.
The boy said in his cross examination by the prosecution that Vinay and Pawan were not in the bus in which a 23-year-old girl was allegedly by a group of six persons.
Special Public Prosecutor Dayan Krishnan and Rajiv Mohan, however, counter the minors contention saying he has concocted a false story at the behest of the accused and his family members as he is accused child-hood friend.
However, the boy rejected the prosecution allegation saying he is not lying as he has taken oath in the name of God and is deposing the correct facts.
“There was no musical programme organised on December 16, 2012 in the evening time in the district park (south Delhi).The DDA/horticulture department does not allow such programme in the park and no one is allowed to enter the park after 7:00 pm in the evening,” the prosecution said.
Vinay had claimed that on December 16 last year, he was at a music function and not in the bus in which the incident of robbery of a carpenter and gangrape took place.
A 23 year old para medical student who was raped by a gang of people in a bus and who passed away after two weeks from that incident. She has gone for a movie with her boy friend and she has got into a bus with her boy friend in New Delhi to go home.
She was hospitalized and had faced three surgeries in India. Then her relatives had taken her to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore and yet they had not been able to save her life as her condition had been very critical. She passed away after 13 days from that unfortunate incident. Her funeral took place in New Delhi as a private ceremony.
This inhuman, savage rape has unsettled the normal lives in India. People had protested strongly against the evils in the society which are insecure towards the wellbeing of the women.
