The police on Thursday contended before the Delhi high court that the accused in 16 December gang rape case had hatched a conspiracy to commit rape and kill the victim.
The court is hearing the final arguments on a day-to-day basis on the trial court’s reference to it for confirmation of death sentence awarded to four convicts in the case.
Appearing for police, special public prosecutor, Dayan Krishnan told the bench of justices Reva Khetrapal and Pratibha Rani that ‘the series of malicious acts of the accused persons amount to conspiracy’.
The lawyer argued that the claim of the accused before the trial court that they were not present at the time of incident was ‘false’ and said that the 23-year-old girl and her male friend were lured to get inside the bus as they were made to believe that it was a public transport vehicle.
‘The manner of commission, the way they had used the weapon against the victim, brutality and injuries and also the fact that the girl and her male friend were thrown out of the bus were sufficient to establish conspiracy in the case.
‘There was also a clear intention to kill the girl.I wish English language has higher words to describe the injury above brutal and grotesque,’ the lawyer said and referred to the testimony of the prosecution witness who was robbed by the accused.
The court is hearing the final arguments on a day-to-day basis on the trial court’s reference to it for confirmation of death sentence awarded to four convicts in the case.
Appearing for police, special public prosecutor, Dayan Krishnan told the bench of justices Reva Khetrapal and Pratibha Rani that ‘the series of malicious acts of the accused persons amount to conspiracy’.
The lawyer argued that the claim of the accused before the trial court that they were not present at the time of incident was ‘false’ and said that the 23-year-old girl and her male friend were lured to get inside the bus as they were made to believe that it was a public transport vehicle.
‘The manner of commission, the way they had used the weapon against the victim, brutality and injuries and also the fact that the girl and her male friend were thrown out of the bus were sufficient to establish conspiracy in the case.
‘There was also a clear intention to kill the girl.I wish English language has higher words to describe the injury above brutal and grotesque,’ the lawyer said and referred to the testimony of the prosecution witness who was robbed by the accused.