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`A blunder'

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday observed that Special Public Prosecutor S. K. Saxena in the Jessica Lal murder case had committed a blunder by ignoring a portion of the police statement of key prosecution witness Bina Ramani while recording her evidence in the trial of the case.

Standing Counsel Mukta Gupta also admitted that the SPP was at fault in not confronting Ms. Ramani with that portion of her police statement wherein she had stated that she had seen a white tee shirt-wearing man putting his pistol in his pocket while fleeing the spot on the night of the incident and had chased him and asked him to hand over the pistol to her. The Bench came across this negligence on the part of the SPP while reading the police and court statements of Ms. Ramani together during the hearing of the appeal against the acquittal of prime accused Manu Sharma and eight others.

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