‘16 Dec gang rape accused were not at DDA park’
13 Aug 2013 5:24 AM IST
A DDA official on Monday told a special court here that the claim of two 16 December gang rape case accused that they were attending a musical function at a DDA park on the night of the incident is false as the civic agency does not allow any such event in that park.
The prosecution brought the DDA official as its witness to counter the claim of Vinay Sharma and Pawan Gupta, who in their statements had said that they were not in the bus in which the 23-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped.
Their relatives who had deposed as defence witnesses in the case had also said that the two were not in the bus.
‘We have a district park in Hauz Khas, opposite IIT gate, adjoining R K Khanna Tennis Stadium. This area is a protected forest. As per norms prescribed in the Forest Act, no public function is allowed to be held in the park nor any permission qua such function has ever been given. ‘On 16 December, 2012 no such function was held in the park nor any large gathering of persons, much less of 300 took place in it,’ the DDA official said. Special public prosecutor Dayan Krishnan, said that neither the DDA nor the Church had organised any function in the park on 16 December 16 night.
The prosecution brought the DDA official as its witness to counter the claim of Vinay Sharma and Pawan Gupta, who in their statements had said that they were not in the bus in which the 23-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped.
Their relatives who had deposed as defence witnesses in the case had also said that the two were not in the bus.
‘We have a district park in Hauz Khas, opposite IIT gate, adjoining R K Khanna Tennis Stadium. This area is a protected forest. As per norms prescribed in the Forest Act, no public function is allowed to be held in the park nor any permission qua such function has ever been given. ‘On 16 December, 2012 no such function was held in the park nor any large gathering of persons, much less of 300 took place in it,’ the DDA official said. Special public prosecutor Dayan Krishnan, said that neither the DDA nor the Church had organised any function in the park on 16 December 16 night.
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