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Re-examination sought in Jessica murder case

Staff Reporter

Police doubt earlier report which said that cartridges were fired from different weapons

NEW DELHI: The Delhi police have virtually sought to re-investigate the Jessica Lal murder case, informing as they did the Delhi High Court on Wednesday that they have decided to go for re-examination of empties of the two cartridges recovered from the crime scene.

Making the submission on behalf of the Delhi police, Standing Counsel Mukta Gupta submitted before a Division Bench of the Court comprising Justice R.S. Sodhi and Justice P.K. Bhasin that the police had decided to get the cartridges' empties re-examined by a board of forensic experts. She stated that the decision to go for retesting of the empties was taken because the police had strong doubts over the earlier report, which had said that the cartridges were fired from two different weapons. She further submitted that the two-weapon theory cited by the forensic experts was one of the main grounds on which the trial court had acquitted all nine accused, including the prime accused, Siddharth Vashishtha alias Manu Sharma, in the case on February 21 this year.

"The police failed to recover the weapon which was used to fire at the ramp model as well as prove their theory that the two cartridges, empties of which were recovered from the spot, were fired from one weapon," the then Additional Sessions Judge S.L. Bhayana, had said while acquitting theaccused .

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