Manu Sharma files appeal | India
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Manu Sharma, son of former Congress party federal minister Venod Sharma has appealed in the Supreme Court against a lower court order that sentenced him to life in prison for murdering a model, Jessica Lal in 1999.Prosecutors said Manu Sharma fired at Jessica Lal after she refused to serve him a drink at a fashionable restaurant in the capital where she was working as a waitress,and demanded that Sharma be sentenced to death.The trial had collapsed in February 2006 when the lower court judge said the prosecution’s case contained loopholes and there was insufficient evidence to convict after 26 people retracted their statements .The acquittals sparked public outrage, with protest rallies and a sustained media campaign launched to demand justice for Lal, who was 34 when she was killed.Police appealed against the acquittals and opened an investigation into allegations that there had been a conspiracy to pervert justice.
The case was reopened and Sharma was sentenced to life imprisonment last December.Source BBC NEws
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