A priest, who deposed before a special court here today, refuted the claim of a December 16 gangrape case accused that the latter was attending a music event at a DDA park on the night of the incident, saying "no such function was organised on that night.
The prosecution brought as a witness the Parish Priest of a Catholic Church in south Delhi to counter the claim of Vinay Sharma who in his statement had said he was not in the bus in which the 23-year-old girl was gangraped allegedly by six persons.
Vinay had claimed that on December 16, he had gone to a music event organised by the Church in the DDA district park at Hauz Khas in south Delhi.
"On December 16, 2012, no musical function was organised ahead of the Christmas... An NGO, Pratibha Tara, run by daughters of the Heart of Mary and the sisters of the Church had also not organised such a function at the district park," the priest, who is also the head of the St. Thomas Church, told Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna.
During his cross-examination by A P Singh, the counsel for Vinay and Akshay Thakur, the priest said "we have nothing to do with the Hauz Khas area as the Church has enough space to organise a gathering or a music function in its premises".
He also refuted the defence counsel's allegation that he was deposing falsely at the behest of SHO, Vasant Vihar.
The prosecution had said neither the DDA nor the Church had organised any function in the park on December 16 night and the accused had committed the crime in the bus along with other five co-accused, including a juvenile.
