APEX COURT ACCEPTS THREE REVIEW PETITIONS ON LATE ANAMIKA OF NAJAFGARH CASE AND AGREES TO HEAR IT IN OPEN COURT. CANDLE MARCH TODAY
The Supreme Court has accepted the three different review petitions filed in the case of Chawla gang rape and subsequent murder of Anamika of Najafgarh and agreed to hear them in an open court.
These three separate review petitions were filed in the apex court by the parents of Anamika through advocate Sandeep Sharma and his team, the Delhi police and by a social organisation Uttarakhand Lok Manch.
The three judge bench comprising of the chief justice of India D. Y. Chandrachud and two other judges Ravindra S. Bhatt and Bela M Trivedi has agreed to hear these review petitions in the open court.
On Wednesday, Soliciter General Tushar Mehta has while appearing in the apex court on behalf of one of the petitioners Delhi Police raised this sensitive issue and urged the three judge bench that the review petitions should be accepted and the case reheard to give justice to the petitioners.
He emphasised that all the three culprits released earlier deserve the harshest of the punishments as one of the three released accused Vinod has been rearrested on 26 th January for again committing a harsh crime of murdering an auto driver in Dwarka.
The chief justice D. Y. Chandrachud agreed to hear the review petitions by re constituting the three judge bench in an open court as requested by the solicitor general Tushar Mehta.
The Delhi Police also filed a new charge sheet against one of the released accused Vinod who was acquitted in Anamika’s case and submitted in the court informing the three judge bench that he has committed a murder on 26 th January, 2023 and has been arrested by Delhi Police by registering an air tight case against him.
It may be recalled that on 9 th February, a 19 year old girl from Garhwal, late Kiran Negi, the only earning member of the family was returning back home in the evening from Gurugram office along with her friends when on the way she was absconded in a red Indica car by three culprits taking her to Rondhai Village periphery in Haryana , obnoxiously gang raping her and then pouring acid in her eyes, inserting screw driver in her ears and inserting broken bottle in her private parts thus inflicting 21 wounds on her body, finally killing her. This was the rarest of the rare act of brutal n gruesome nature.
Her dead body with lot of wounds was found after three days at Rondhai, Haryana, periphery. The FIR was lodged after the locals protested at Chawla police station.
After several protest demonstrations at Jantar Mantar and in front of Dwarka Court by women n men social activists for several days n media blitzkrieg the Dwarka session court sentence these three culprits to PHANSI, capital punishment in 2014 further okayed ( withheld) by the Delhi High Court. The convicts approached the supreme Court for relief and after eight days of legal battle by the aggrieved parents of Anamika the convicts were acquitted by supreme Court led by the former CHIEF UU Lalit and two other justices blaming Delhi Police for patchy investigations. Meanwhile, a massive candle march has been organised at Dwarka near Akhardham Society to express solidarity to the cause.
