Supreme Court lawyer Dayan Krishnan has been appointed as the special public prosecutor by the Delhi Police to conduct trial in the December 16 gang-rape of a paramedical student who succumbed to injuries during the wee hours of Saturday at a Singapore hospital.
“It is Dayan Krishnan, an eminent lawyer... He has volunteered to do it free of cost. He will be assisted by two juniors,” Dharmendra Kumar, Special Commissioner of Police (Law and Order), told PTI.
The senior police officer said the harshest punishment would be sought against five accused during the trial after filing the charge sheet by January 3, 2013.
“We hope to file the charge sheet by January 3, 2013. Section 302 of the IPC, which is the penal section for murder, has been added in the FIR,” Mr. Kumar said, adding, “It will be our endeavour to ensure the harshest punishment in the book for the culprits.”
Police have slapped murder charges as well as sections 201 (destruction of evidence), 365 (kidnapping or abducting), 376 (2)(g) (gang rape), 377 (unnatural offences), 394 (hurting in committing robbery) and 34 (common intention) of IPC against the accused.
The special prosecutor would conduct the trial in a fast track court on a day-to-day basis.
Later talking to PTI, Mr. Krishnan said, “I had given my consent to conduct the trial.”
Mr. Krishnan has been representing the NIA, the Delhi Police and other agencies at various judicial fora in many cases including the Nitish Katara murder case.
"Mr. Krishnan has been representing the NIA, the Delhi Police and other agencies.."
One would have thought that a team of female lawyers outside New Delhi
who can empathise with the victim and grill the police as they let this prohibited bus to run, did not attend to the call of a witness reporting the crime, and asked the victim to produce statememt twice whilst she was fighting for her life. It seems nothing will change!
(visitng India)
This incident is abominable but unfortunately is not rare in present day India. Rape of less than year, 5 yrs and discarding their corpses in irrigation ditches?.
The thugs and criminals everyday are becoming bolder. Chain snatchings from women's neck is such a common occurance and possiblely police have lost track of them. Listeninig to stories these molesting of women crowded in buses have become and goes unpunished.
May be the thugs only will listen bare bottomed whipping in public like they do in Singapore. And hang every one of these racscals, short of it the Indians have every rght to take law into their own hands and adminster intsntaneous justice.
We only worship wonderful gods creations when we want form them wealth health and knowledge as godesses.
Till now this is the saddest day in my life. What we can do now is pray for her eternal peace. The Rapists must be hanged for this heinous crime. When will rape ever stop? Its not just in India but in the whole Indian Sub-continent(south Asia). What's worse is that due to our unequal and confilcting norms and the blame goes on to the women for being raped, that she was actually provoking the guy/s and that she shouldn't have gone out and night and etc............ it never ends. This is December of 2012 and these uncivilised norms must end. We must do whatever we can to make sure that this never happens again.
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