Three men sentenced to death for the rape and murder of a young woman in 2012 are acquitted in India

Nov. 8 (EUROPA PRESS) –

India’s Supreme Court has released three men who were sentenced to death eight years ago for the 2012 rape, torture and murder of a 19-year-old girl in New Delhi after raising questions about the investigation that was carried out and about the alleged participation of these three people.

The three Supreme Court judges who have analyzed the case this Monday maintain that there was negligence on the part of the Police during the investigation, as well as during the trial that sentenced these three people to death in 2014.

The alleged contradictions that occurred during the investigation are sufficient, the judges have said, to give the benefit of the doubt to these three men, one of whom acknowledged his participation and blamed the other two, as the television channel recalls. ABP News television.

However, the judges maintain that the evidence must be indisputable to convict someone and that there were also “flagrant failures” in the previous trial, in which the magistrate acted as a “passive arbitrator.”

According to the ruling, the identity of the three defendants was not duly established, none of the witnesses from the previous trial were able to locate them at the scene of the events, nor was it possible to prove any of the evidence presented. “The court has no other alternative than to acquit the accused, even if they are involved in such a heinous crime,” he justified, details the newspaper ‘Indian Express’.

The case dates back to February 2012 when the young woman named Anamika was abducted from the Chhawla neighborhood of New Delhi. She was raped and murdered, three days later her body was found with visible marks of having suffered various tortures.