Delhi to challenge Supreme Court order to release 3 convicts in 2012 Chhawla rape and murder case

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Chhawla gangrape-murder case: The Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena has approved filing of a review petition against the acquittal of three accused in 2012 Chhawla rape and murder case.

L-G said that Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, Additional SG Aishwariya Bhati, will represent the Delhi government.

The accused were earlier convicted and awarded death sentence by the Trial Court and High Court of Delhi for in gangrape and murder case 19-year old girl on February 9, 2012 at Chhawla, Dwarka, Delhi.

BJP MP Anil Baluni met VK Saxena along with the parents of the victim and requested him to file a review petition in the case.

Earlier this month, the Supreme Court acquitted the three men sentenced to death for the gangrape and murder, noting the prosecution failed to provide leading, cogent, clinching and clear evidence against the accused.

The three men were accused of abducting, raping and killing the 19-year-old woman in February 2012. Her mutilated body was found three days later.

"I met Lt Governor of Delhi along with parents of the 2012 Chhawla gang rape case victim and requested him to file review petition in the case as the Delhi government is party in the case so that stringent punishment could be given to the accused," Baluni, the BJP's national media in-charge said in a statement.

Baluni is a Rajya Sabha MP from Uttarakhand, from where the victim hailed. Her parents had said that they wanted death penalty for the accused.

In 2014, a trial court termed the case "rarest of rare" and awarded death penalty to the three accused. The judgment was upheld by the Delhi High Court.

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