New Delhi: Counsel for prime accused Manu Sharma's in the Jessica Lall murder case on Tuesday contended before the Delhi High Court that police had "planted" the Tata Safari car at Qutub Colonnade on the fateful night to "implicate" his client.
Prosecution claims that Sharma along with three of his friends had gone to attend the party in his Tata Safari car on April 29-30, 1999.
Soon after the incident, they all left the place, leaving the car over there but after some time co-accused Vikas Yadav came there and took it away from the spot.
Arguing on the use of the car in the crime, Sharma's counsel R K Naseem told a Bench comprising Justices R S Sodhi and P K Bhasin that police had picked up the car from Karnal, Haryana, and planted it as a piece of evidence in the case.
"There is no evidence to establish that the car was used by the accused in the crime," the lawyer argued.
"To corroborate its stand police had planted its own people as witnesses who gave statements of having seen the car parked and later taken away by Vikas," he added.
Referring to the testimony of home guard Shravan Kumar, who claimed that he had given a lathi blow on the glass pane of the car when it was taken away by the accused after the incident, Naseem said he was a planted witness.
"No witness had seen that the car was driven by my client on the fateful night," Naseem said and argued that the car was allotted to Harbinder Chopra, Executive Director of the Piccadilly company and the car was registered in its name and not Sharma's.
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