New Delhi: Manu Sharma alias Siddharth Vashishth, who was on Monday convicted by the Delhi High Court for the murder of ramp model and documentary filmmaker Jessica Lall, is back in jail after spending over one-and-a-half year outside of it.
Manu, the son of former union minister and Haryana Congressman Vinod Sharma, surrendered to the Delhi police on Monday evening hours after the High Court pronounced him guilty in the high-profile murder case, and he was immediately sent to Tihar Jail.
Jessica had been killed on April 29, 1999 during a party at South Delhi’s Tamarind Court restaurant, in full view of hundreds of high-profile guests, including a top-ranking Delhi Police officer. Jessica was shot dead when she was tending the bar.
The High Court Bench, while prouncing the verdict on Monday, had issued an order for the immediate arrest of Manu Sharma. "Arrest Manu wherever he is," the Bench said.
The court has also issued production warrant against Vikas Yadav, who is already in judicial custody in the Nitish Katara murder case. The third convict, Amardeep Gill, who was present in court, was taken into custody immediately. The quantum of punishment for the three will be announced on Wednesday.
Manu surrendered to the police hours after his father Vinod Sharma met his counsel Ram Jethmalani at his Delhi residence on Monday afternoon.
Manu had been out on bail ever since April 12 , 2005. He had surrendered to the court in February this year but was released subsequently after the trial court acquitted him along with all the nine accused in the case on the ground that 'the Delhi police have failed to sustain their grounds in the trial on which they had built up their case'.
The lower court verdict had led to a massive public outcry, prompting the Delhi Police to register a case against unknown persons for tampering of evidence and criminal conspiracy. On Monday, the Delhi High Court overturned the verdict, after it agreed to all the 96 counts on which the police had sought a review of the lower court verdict.
The High Court verdict came after a total of 25 hearings since the case was reopened in March.
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