New Delhi, Dec 8 (Inditop.com) Four years after the brutal gang rape of a Delhi University student in a moving car near Dhaula Kuan, a Delhi court Tuesday convicted one of the offenders.
Additional Sessions Judge Neeraj Kumar Gupta held Ajit Singh Katiyar guilty under various sections of the Indian Penal Code dealing with abduction, rape and criminal intimidation.
The court fixed Dec 10 for arguments on the quantum of sentence.
The convict may face a maximum punishment of rigorous life imprisonment.
In the sensational 2005 gang rape, four men in a Santro car abducted the student who belongs to the northeast, from near a Dhaula Kuan eatery late at night. She was there along with another girl. After forcibly dragging the girl into the car, the men raped her in the moving car. They later threw her out near a gurdwara at Dhaula Kuan.
“The 20-year-old student, hailing from Mizoram, was abducted around 2.15 a.m. May 8, 2005, from Dhaula Kuan when she was walking back home after buying food from a roadside eatery and was raped by four accused in a moving car,” said the prosecution.
The victim’s friend had managed to flee from the clutches of the accused.
Police, however, could arrest only one of the accused – Ajit Singh Katiyar.
The other three accused – Danda, Jat and Tappe – evaded arrest and were declared proclaimed offenders.
Katiyar, a driver with a Noida-based call centre, was arrested five days after the incident and was identified by the victim in a test identification parade conducted inside Tihar Jail.
Reacting to the order, Katiyar’s counsel Manoj Sharma said: “It’s a court’s view. We will fight and approach the high court for relief. All recoveries in the case are disputed and I will have to examine the grounds on which he was convicted.”
According to the police, Katiyar has a criminal record with at least 10 cases like attempted murder, auto theft and illegal possession of arms registered against him. He has also been charged with shooting at a police party.
