New Delhi: The Delhi Police has justified the invoking of murder charge in its charge sheet against four of the seven men accused of dragging to death a 20-year-old woman in a car. The Delhi Police said the accused had ample opportunities to save the victim. However, they ‘intentionally and knowingly’ dragged her for kilometres together.
Anjali Singh, an employee of an event management firm, was allegedly dragged under a car for kilometres December 31 night. Anjali succumbed to serious wounds while she was still under the car.
Police, in their 800-page charge sheet, said ‘in furtherance of their ill intention, plan and active participation’ Amit Khanna, Krishan, Manoj Mittal, and Mithun ‘finally killed’ victim Anjali Singh in a ‘gruesome manner’.
According to a portion of the final probe report, accessed by this agency, the investigation has revealed that the offence was committed in two parts — first, when the accused hit the victim, and second, when they reversed the car and then drove it around, dragging the victim for a very long distance.
It said the ‘guilty intent’ and ‘knowledge’ of the accused were established by the fact that they stopped the car around 500-600 metres from the place of the incident, following which two of them sitting behind and a third sitting next to the driver came out to check whether the victim was still stuck under the wheels.
According to information gleaned from witness testimony, CCTV cameras footage, and other evidence, at the time of incident, the four accused were present inside the car, the charge sheet said. Amit Khanna was driving the car with Manoj Mittal sitting beside him and Mithun and Krishan in the back seat, police said in the charge sheet.
“The accused persons had ample opportunities to save the victim but they intentionally and knowingly dragged her with the car so that she is killed and in furtherance of their ill intention, plan and active participation, the accused persons finally killed her in a gruesome manner,” the charge sheet said.
The body of the victim was finally ‘detached’ from the car at Shani Bazar Road in Krishan Vihar around 13km from the spot of the incident, it said.
Police had arrested Deepak, 26, Amit, 25, Krishan, 27, Mithun, 26, and Manoj Mittal in connection with Anjali’s death January 2. Two other accused, Ashutosh Bhardwaj and Ankush, were given bail by the court earlier.
Police said in the charge sheet that Ashutosh, who was the custodial owner of the car, and Ankush gave false information about the driver to mislead the investigation and also helped provide harbour to the accused at the house of Deepak, another accused in the case.
