December 16 gangrape case: IO denies fabricating evidence

The trial in the December 16 gangrape case today resumed in a Delhi court after the summer vacation with the investigating officer (IO) rejecting the allegation that she had fabricated evidence.
"It is wrong to suggest that all the accused persons were falsely implicated in the present case," the lady IO, who had initially probed the case, told Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna.
The officer also refuted the allegation that accused Vinay Sharma was a juvenile at the time of the incident or that he had shown her the clippings of a musical function where he was allegedly present on December 16, 2012 night, when the 23-year-old girl was gangraped by the six persons in a moving bus here.

The six accused have also brutally assaulted the victim's male friend, a software engineer, with a iron rod and later dumped both of them on the road side.
"It is wrong to suggest that accused Vinay was juvenile at the time of the incident or that his parents told me so. It is wrong to suggest that Vinay ever showed me the clippings of a musical show in which he was present on the day of the incident," the officer told the court.
She also denied the allegation that accused Akshay Singh was falsely implicated in the case as he was not present in Delhi at the time of commission of the crime.

"It is wrong to suggest that accused Akshay Singh was not present inside the bus at the time of the incident or that he was not in Delhi on that day," she said in response to the cross-examination by the lawyers for Akshay and Vinay.
The lady IO also contended that after the incident, Akshay fled to his native village in Aurangabd in Bihar, from where he was arrested and bought to Delhi.