Summary:
Haldar is accused of gunning down three witnesses who had deposed against Asaram in the infamous rape case. Akhil Gupta, 37, was among several key witnesses in the rape case and was a former cook and aide of Asaram. Gupta was the second witness to be killed in the case after Amrut Prajapati, a former Asaram aide, was shot dead in June 2015. Muzaffarnagar: Moments after Kartik Haldar, the main accused in the murder of a prime witness in Asaram rape case, came out of the Chief Judicial Magistrate court here after a hearing on Thursday, the wife of the slain witness Akhil Gupta allegedly attacked him with sandals before she was restrained by women police personnel. The case had been moving at a very slow pace after CBI began its probe in October 2016..