U’khand Govt assures all possible help to Chhawla gangrape-murder victim’s family
Saturday, 12 November 2022 | PNS | DEHRADUN
The Uttarakhand government has assured every possible help and support to the family of the Chhawla gangrape and murder victim. After a long legal battle, the Supreme Court recently acquitted the three men accused in the case reversing the death penalty awarded by a trial courty and upheld by the Delhi High Court.
On Friday the chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami had a telephonic conversation with the father of the victim currently in Delhi. Dhami told him that he had interacted with their counsel in SC, Charu Khanna and discussed the case. Dhami said that he has also talked with the Union Law Minister Kiran Rijiju on the issue. He told the father that he will meet him during his next Delhi visit and assured that the whole of Uttarakhand and the State government is with them.
It will be recalled that the Supreme Court had on November 7 acquitted three men sentenced to death for the gangrape and murder of a 19-year-old woman in Delhi’s Chhawla area in 2012. The trio was accused of abducting, gangraping and brutally killing the woman in February 2012. Her mutilated body was found three days after she was abducted. The SC had noted that the prosecution had failed to provide leading, cogent, clinching and clear evidence, including those related to DNA profiling and call detail records against the accused. Earlier, a trial court had in 2014 awarded the death penalty to the three accused, terming the case as “rarest of rare”. The judgement was later upheld by the Delhi High Court.
