Victim faints in court after identifying her assaulters
18 Oct 2013 10:57 PM GMT
The 23-year-old photojournalist in the Mumbai gangrape case on Thursday identified her assaulters and fainted inside the court during her four-hour deposition following which she was taken to a city hospital.
‘The rape survivor fainted during the deposition after which we stopped the proceedings and I requested the court that she be referred for medical help,’ special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam said.
The victim, who was allegedly gangraped in the Shakti Mill compound here on 22 August, was accompanied by her mother in the sessions court here during its in-camera proceedings.
The young scribe stuck to her statement given to the police, narrated the entire incident and shared her ordeal in the court on the third day of the trial today, Nikam said.
She also identified the porn clip shown to her by the accused during the sexual assault, he said.
Nikam described the victim as ‘confident, articulate and narrative’ and said she was ‘tense’ during the deposition and at times requested for a small break.
However, the four accused in the case remained ‘unfazed, remorseless and unmoved’ during the proceedings, he said.
In view of the incident, Principal Judge Shalini Phansalkar Joshi adjourned the trial till Friday.
The journalist, who was interning with a English magazine here, was gangraped by five persons, including a juvenile whose trial is separated, when she had gone to the deserted mill compound her male colleague on an assignment.
‘The rape survivor fainted during the deposition after which we stopped the proceedings and I requested the court that she be referred for medical help,’ special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam said.
The victim, who was allegedly gangraped in the Shakti Mill compound here on 22 August, was accompanied by her mother in the sessions court here during its in-camera proceedings.
The young scribe stuck to her statement given to the police, narrated the entire incident and shared her ordeal in the court on the third day of the trial today, Nikam said.
She also identified the porn clip shown to her by the accused during the sexual assault, he said.
Nikam described the victim as ‘confident, articulate and narrative’ and said she was ‘tense’ during the deposition and at times requested for a small break.
However, the four accused in the case remained ‘unfazed, remorseless and unmoved’ during the proceedings, he said.
In view of the incident, Principal Judge Shalini Phansalkar Joshi adjourned the trial till Friday.
The journalist, who was interning with a English magazine here, was gangraped by five persons, including a juvenile whose trial is separated, when she had gone to the deserted mill compound her male colleague on an assignment.
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