THREE JUDGE BENCH OF APEX COURT TO STUDY THE REVIEW PETITIONS BEFORE TAKING DECISION ON ITS ADMISSION SAY CHIEF JUSTICE D. Y. CHANDRACHUD IN NIRBHAYA OF NAJAFGARH CASE !
The Supreme Court will soon take a decision on admitting the review petitions filed in Supreme Court in connection with the Nirbhaya of Najafgarh case in which three convicts were acquitted by a three judge bench that included the former chief justice UU Lalit n two other learned judges. This judgement blaming the Delhi Police for patchy and loop holes oriented investigations gave the benefit of doubt to the hardened criminals who’d obnoxiously raped and brutally murdered the 19 year old innocent Nirbhaya of Najafgarh by abducting her in their red indica car taking to Revari, Haryana in Rodhai village precincts where her badly mutilated dead body was traced after three days of incessant bloody torture on 9 February 2012 several months before the tortuous gang rape n murder of Damini of Vacant Vihar in a running bus.
The bench of supreme Court comprising of chief justice D. Y. Chandrachud, justice P. S. Narsimhan and justice JB Padrivala has taken the cognisance of the appeal of the advocate representing them that this is a rarest of the rare case which has shaken the inner conscience and confidence of humanity which if not heard will sent a wrong precedent in future. While taking a serious note of the petitions the chief justice of India D. Y. Chandrachud has said that he will thoroughly go through the review petition and take the necessary decision forth with. It may be recalled that the three culprits were already granted capital punishment first by the Dwarka sessions Court and then upheld by Delhi High Court on 26 th August 2014. But after ten years of incessant pursuance of this case in Supreme Court on 7 th November 2022 the apex Court three judge bench acquitted all the three convicts scot free. There were number of protests and candle marches in Delhi and NCR thereafter expressing anguish by people and the parents of the deceased Nirbhaya of Najafgarh. The parents approached the Lt governor of Delhi Vinay Mishra who ordered the Delhi Police who filed the review petition including two other petitions by the anguished father of late Kiran Negi Kunwar Singh Negi and Uttarakhand Lok Manch. The three judge bench as above there after took notice of these petitions and the chief justice Mr. D.Y. Chandrachud assured to read it thoroughly before deciding on their fate in the near future. It may be recalled that the advocate Rohit Dhaundiyal had filed the review petition representing the father of deceased Kiran Negi, Kunwar Singh Negi.
