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| INDIA
, 24-April-2007
2:47:56 AM |
| Reacting with alacrity to an anonymous letter indicating an ominous pattern in acquittal of accused persons belonging to rich families in three murder cases here, the Delhi High Court on Monday directed the Special Investigation Team of the Delhi police investigating witnesses turning hostile in the Jessica Lal murder case to probe the fresh charges.
Ordering the probe, a Division Bench of the Court comprising Justice R. S. Sodhi and Justice H. R. Malhotra said if the police found some force in the allegations levelled against the criminal justice delivery system in the anonymous letter, they would reopen all such cases here.
Expressing deep shock over the allegations, the two Judges said if these were found to be true then it would mean that the criminal justice delivery system in the country was finished.
The Bench referred to the letter in the open court while hearing the case of witnesses turning hostile in the Jessica Lal murder case.
The anonymous letter referred to three murder cases involving people belonging to well-off families who were acquitted due to purported contradictions between the evidence of eyewitnesses in the cases and forensic opinion on the use of firearms.
The letter mentioned that, interestingly, in all the three cases the ballistic expert was the same person -- Roop Singh of the Rajasthan Forensic Laboratory -- who had expressed his inability to give any opinion on the cartridges used in the murder of ramp model Jessica Lal in the absence of the firearm used.
Handing over the letter to Delhi Government's Standing Counsel Mukta Gupta, the Bench asked the Special Investigation Team of the Delhi police to investigate whether there was any nexus between Roop Singh and the investigators, the advocates and the courts connected with the three cases.
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