Jessica Lall
Jessica Lall
Jessica Lall
In the ensuing trial over seven years, Manu Sharma and a number of
others were acquitted on February 21, 2006
Background
Chronology of dates
Initial trials
Acquittal by lower
court
Sad struggling phase
Role of Media
Role of Public
Appeal and conviction
in HC
Judgement
conclusion
Prominent socialite Bina Ramani,
was the owner of Tamarind Court
Café, the restaurant at which this
murder took place.
– Jessica Lall to
Manu Sharma,
May 19, 1999:Vikas Yadav walked into the Delhi police headquarters
and surrendered, but only hours later he walked out, as he carried
anticipatory bail papers from Imphal Court
⇒120(b),
⇒302,
⇒201
⇒212 ,of the IPC (for giving shelter to the accused and
destroying evidence)
The Jessica Lall murder case went up for trial in
August 1999, Manu charged with murder and his
friends charged with related crimes such as
destroying evidence and sheltering criminal suspects .
⇒ Shayan Munshi
⇒ Karan Rajput
⇒ Shivdas Yadav
⇒ Parikshit Sagar
Shayan munshi
Acquittal BY
LOWER
COURT
After extensive hearings with nearly a hundred witnesses, a
Delhi trial court headed by Additional Sessions Judge S. L.
Bhayana, acquitted 9 accused in Jessica Lall Murder case,
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hundreds of
thousands of hundreds of students,
people e-mailed mnc executives along
and SMS-ed their with retired IAS and
outrage on Army officers
petitions participated in the
forwarded by protest
media channels
and newspapers
to the President
April 2006
Cops examined Sabrina statement.
Access allowed to Manu Sharma's 1999 interrogation.
Manu Sharma granted bail and eight others and restraining
them from leaving the country.
Police to furnished case diary, status report.
May–June 2006
• Jessica Lal case: Cop transferred
• Delhi police submits synopsis of status report to HC
• Shayan Munshi held, gets bail
• Shayan Munshi interrogated in Jessica Lal case
• Jessica case: Court unhappy with Delhi cops
September 2006
• Warrant against Bina Ramani
• Socialite Bina Ramani arrested
• Dr J S Bedi gets bail
• Bina Ramani in judicial custody until Sept 27
• Bina Ramani granted bail
• Bina Ramani released from Tihar jail
On September 9 2006, a sting operation by the
news magazine Tehelka was shown on the TV
channel Star News.
Tehalka explained how the witnesses had been
bribed and coerced into retracting their initial
testimony.
Venod Sharma was named in the expose as
paying millions of rupees to some of the
witnesses.
Facing pressure from the central Congress
leaders, Venod Sharma resigned from the Haryana
cabinet(election matter)
December 18
Manu Sharma was awarded life imprisonment. The other accused, Vikas
Yadav and AmarDeep Singh Gill, were awarded four years of imprisonment for
destroying evidence
Manu Sharma's lawyer, R K Naseem said the decision would be appealed in
Supreme Court, because the judgement was wrong in holding Bina Ramani to
have been an eyewitness