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Court dismisses doctor's plea in Jessica case

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Friday dismissed an application by a Chandigarh-based doctor seeking a direction to the Delhi police to provide him a certified copy of a medical certificate allegedly issued by him to an accused in the Jessica Lal murder case.

Dismissing his application, vacation judge R.S. Sodhi said that since the petitioner had inspected the medical certificate earlier, his plea had no merit.

On a Delhi High Court direction, the Delhi police have registered a case against the doctor for allegedly issuing a fake certificate to the accused, Vikas Gill, which the latter had used to secure personal exemption from court during trial of the case.

The alleged culpability of the doctor, J.S. Bedi, had come to light in April this year when the Delhi police submitted in the High Court that Vikas Gill, who was tried and acquitted along with eight other accused in the case in February this year, had left the country without permission of the court during the trial and has been absconding since.

"Vikas Gill had left the country on October 9, 2004, without the permission of the trial court when the trial proceedings were pending. Though his presence in the court was recorded on February 21 this year when the trial court pronounced the judgment in the case, but he was not physically present in the courtroom," the Standing Counsel for the Delhi police, Mukta Gupta, had stated.

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