Court dismisses plea, fixes case for final arguments

A Delhi court today dismissed a plea seeking to examine several doctors on the issue of potency of an accused in the Danish woman gangrape case, who had died in jail two months ago.
Additional Sessions Judge Ramesh Kumar-II rejected the application of counsel for accused Shyam Lal, who had died in February, and fixed the case for April 26 for hearing final arguments in the case.
Proceedings against accused Shyam Lal were abated in the case of gangrape of a 52-year-old Danish woman here in 2014.
Defence counsel had filed the plea seeking to recall as court witnesses, some doctors of RML Hospital who had conducted the potency test of 55-year-old Lal.

The plea was opposed by Special Public Prosecutor Atul Shrivastava who argued that it was a delaying tactics by the defence.
He had said when Lal was alive and prosecution had sought the examination of three doctors regarding his potency after he claimed to be impotent, it was opposed by the defence.

According to the prosecution, the nine accused, all vagabonds, had allegedly robbed and gangraped the Danish tourist at knife-point on the night of January 14, 2014, after leading her to a secluded spot close to the Divisional Railway Officers' Club near New Delhi Railway Station.
All nine accused were arrested. The five adult accused - Mahendra alias Ganja (26), Mohd Raja (22), Raju (23), Arjun 21), Raju Chakka (22) - are in judicial custody and facing trial. Lal, who was in judicial custody, died in February.

Three other accused were juveniles against whom inquiry before the Juvenile Justice Board is in progress.
The court had earlier allowed prosecution's plea to place on record the original medical and potency test report of Lal, who had claimed to be impotent, and examine three doctors in this regard.