Bhanwari Devi case stuck due to lack of witness

  • | Wednesday | 20th March, 2019

“We have requested the trial court to close the witness of Carr. In spite of repeated requests to close the witness of Carr, the court has not been granting our plea, which was not justifiable,” said Choudhary. Since these bones were burnt, they could not be DNA tested in India and had to be sent to the US at FBI’s forensic laboratory, where Carr had done a DNA examination of these bones. Granting the plea of CBI, the court adjourned the matter till March 25 after carrying out the hearing for two days in succession on Monday and Tuesday.Carr was the one, who had tested the purported bones of Bhanwari Devi, recovered by the CBI from a canal near village Jaloda. JODHPUR: Trial of the infamous Bhanwari Devi abduction and murder case has been stuck for nearly two years now for want of a prosecution witness, an American citizen and DNA expert from FBI, Amber B Carr.Carr has not appeared in the court since her first summon in May last year and the CBI has been invariably praying in the court for examination of Carr through video conferencing, which the defence has been protesting.

JODHPUR: Trial of the infamous Bhanwari Devi abduction and murder case has been stuck for nearly two years now for want of a prosecution witness, an American citizen and DNA expert from FBI, Amber B Carr.Carr has not appeared in the court since her first summon in May last year and the CBI has been invariably praying in the court for examination of Carr through video conferencing, which the defence has been protesting. “We want her examination in person but insistence of the CBI on video conferencing despite the court’s refusal was nothing but a tactic to linger on the trial,” said a defence counsel Jagmal Singh Choudhary.Choudhary, on Tuesday moved an application in the court praying for closing the witness of Carr and proceed with the trial in order to complete it as soon as possible. “We have requested the trial court to close the witness of Carr. In spite of repeated requests to close the witness of Carr, the court has not been granting our plea, which was not justifiable,” said Choudhary. He alleged that instead of producing the witness, the prosecution has been just seeking time over and over again just to linger the trial.On the other hand, the prosecution witness told the court that they have moved an application in the high court against the rejection of their appeal to grant them permission to carry out the examination of Carr through video conferencing.“Since we have moved an application in the high court, we prayed the trial court to adjourn the hearing,” said a CBI council. Granting the plea of CBI, the court adjourned the matter till March 25 after carrying out the hearing for two days in succession on Monday and Tuesday.Carr was the one, who had tested the purported bones of Bhanwari Devi, recovered by the CBI from a canal near village Jaloda. Since these bones were burnt, they could not be DNA tested in India and had to be sent to the US at FBI’s forensic laboratory, where Carr had done a DNA examination of these bones.

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