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| April 29-30 1999 -- Jessica was shot on the intervening night at a party at Qutub Colonnade restaurant in south Delhi.
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| April 30, 1999 -- Doctors at Apollo hospital declare Jessica brought dead.
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| May 2, 1999 -- Delhi Police recovers Tata Safari car belonging to Manu Sharma, son of Haryana Congress leader Vinod Sharma, from Noida, Uttar Pradesh.
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May 6, 1999 -- Manu surrenders before a court in Chandigarh.
Subsequently, other ten co-accused including Vikas Yadav, son of UP politician D P Yadav, were arrested.
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| August 3, 1999 -- Chargesheet filed against accused for killing Jessica under various sections of IPC.
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| January 31, 2000 -- Magistrate court commits the case to a Sessions court for trial.
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| November 23, 2000 -- Sessions court frames charges for murder against nine persons and discharges one accused Amit Jhingan while declaring Ravinder Sudan alias Titu as proclaimed offender.
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| May 2, 2001 -- Court starts recording of prosecution evidence. Deepak Bhojwani, an eye witness deposes before the trial court.
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| May 3, 2001 -- Complainant and eye witness Shyan Munshi turns hostile, fails to identify Manu in court.
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| May 5, 2001 -- Another eye witness Shiv Das, an electrician at Qutub Colonnade, turns hostile.
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| May 16, 2001 -- Third key witness Karan Rajput turns hostile.
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| July 6, 2001 -- Malini Ramani, eyewitness, identifies Manu.
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| October 12, 2001 -- Socialite Bina Ramani, owner of the restaurant and bar, physically identifies Manu.
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| October 17, 2001 -- George Mailhot, Ramani's Canadian husband, deposes and identifies Manu.
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| July 20, 2004 -- Surinder Sharma, controversial investigating officer in the case, deposes after returning from UN assignment in Kosovo.
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| February 21, 2006 -- Trial court acquits all nine accused due to lack of evidence against them.
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| March 13, 2006 -- Delhi Police file appeal in the High Court.
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| October 3, 2006 -- High Court begins hearing on appeal on a day-to-day basis.
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| November 29, 2006 -- High Court reserves its verdict.
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| December 18, 2006 -- High Court convicts Manu, Vikas Yadav and Amardeep Singh Gill alias Tony and acquits Aloke Khanna, Vikas Gill, Harvinder Singh Chopra, Raja Chopra, Shyam Sunder Sharma and Yograj Singh.
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| December 20, 2006 -- High Court awards life imprisonment term to main convict Manu Sharma with a fine of Rs 50,000 and also sentences co-convicts Amardeep Singh Gill and Vikas Yadav to four years' prison term with Rs 3,000 fine each. |
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