Chawla Rape and Murder : Review Petition against acquital of convicts

Posted on 1 March, 2023 by Administrator

Status Update : 02-Mar-2023

New Delhi [India], December 5: The parents of the Chhawala rape victim, moved a review petition in the Supreme Court, against its order acquitting the three men, who were awarded the death penalty by a Delhi Court in connection with allegedly raping and killing a 19-year-old woman in Delhi’s Chhawala area in 2012. 

Adv Varun Singh, Adv Sandeep Sharma and Adv Rohit Nautriyal appearing for the victim have informed the press that the parents of the deceased of Chhawala have moved a petition in the Supreme Court seeking a review of its earlier order claiming “error” in earlier verdict as important evidence in form of DNA, Mobile Location, Independent Witnesses Testimony among others were incorrectly interpreted earlier.

Nirbhaya’s mother Asha Devi, said that she has come to the Supreme Court after three years with the parents of the Chhawala rape victim. Asha Devi said that now she is fighting a legal battle for seeking justice for the Chhawala victims and expressed hope that the Supreme Court may recall its earlier order.

The Supreme Court on November 7 2022, had set aside the Delhi High Court order and acquitted three men who were awarded the death penalty by a Delhi Court after being held guilty of raping and killing a 19-year-old woman in Delhi’s Chhawala area in 2012. Apex court gave the accused the benefit of the doubt and directed to set free the accused forthwith if not required in any other case.
The three convicts were awarded the death penalty after being held guilty of raping and killing a 19-year-old woman in 2012. A Delhi court in February 2014 convicted them. The capital punishment was upheld by the Delhi High Court on August 26, 2014, saying they were “predators” moving on the streets and “were looking for prey”. The three men viz., Ravi Kumar, Rahul and Vinod were convicted under various charges dealing with kidnapping, rape and murder. According to the prosecution, the offence was barbaric in nature as they first kidnapped the woman, raped her, killed her and dumped her body in a field in Rodhai village in Haryana’s Rewari district.
“The woman was kidnapped by the three men in a car from near her house in the Qutub Vihar area on the night of February 9, 2012, while she was returning from office,” the prosecution had said.
The prosecution had also revealed multiple injuries on the woman’s head and other parts of her body and said that the three men had assaulted the woman with a car jack and an earthen pot.