A physically-challenged woman agreeing to play a rape victim for a few bucks in conspiracy with a lawyer and two Delhi Police officials ended up turning the tables on them, leading to their conviction.
The four accused persons had almost succeeded in taking their plan to the logical end as the police arrested an innocent person and put him behind the bars for rape charges but for the last minute change of heart on the part of the linchpin of the crime.
The case dates back to 2000 when a Tis Hazari courts lawyer, his clerk, an Inspector and a Sub-Inspector of the city police and a physically-challenged woman came together and implicated a man in a rape case to teach him a lesson for standing a witness in a molestation case against Inspector C.M. Dutta.
As per plan, the woman had physical relations with her friend Babloo. Thereafter, she came to the Tis Hazari courts where she met lawyer Haji Mohammed Altaf, Sub-Inpector Narender Singh, accused Sonu, clerk of the lawyer, and two women and discussed how to create a rape scene.
She was also given a piece of Burfi laced with sedative to eat but it did not have much intoxicating effect on her. Thereafter, she was taken to the upper floor of the lawyer’s chamber where Savita, one of the two women, injected some fluid in her private part in order to establish that she had been raped. Then, she was administered some tobacco which made her giddy and thereafter she was dropped near St. Stephen’s Hospital in a planned manner by accused Sonu.
Further, as per the script, Narender Singh arrived at the spot where the woman had been abandoned and called the police. Later, the police officer recorded the statement of the woman where she charged the innocent man with sexual assault.
However, the conspiracy went awry when the woman during her interrogation by the Crime Branch admitted that she had never been raped by anyone. She also admitted before a Magistrate that the case had been fabricated by all the four accused persons in order to implicate the innocent man in a false rape case.
DNA reports of the Forensic Laboratory, Hyderabad, established that the source of semen on the relevant exhibits were of accused Sonu and another person, not of the innocent person.
The Inspector, lawyer’s clerk and the man who was implicated in the case died during the course of the trial.
Holding advocate Hazi Mohammed Altaf and Sub-Inspector Narender Singh guilty of criminal conspiracy and other offences, Additional Sessions Judge Manoj Jain awarded each four years in jail.
The accused had almost succeeded in their plan as the innocent person was put behind the bars
