The change of the public prosecutor and the accused citing medical grounds, including being HIV positive, for leniency and reprieves, came as bumps in the road to justice.
Adjournments and absenting defense witnesses only added to its frustrations.
“The delay in the trial was a result of all these factors, but the Delhi Police helped us a lot. They informed us about all legal updates and always reached out,” she says.
Apart from ascertaining fishy bank transactions from her daughter’s account, Sabita also identified the jewellery recovered from the accused persons. At the time of her death, Jigisha was wearing her mother’s gold chain.
“The moment I saw it, I knew it was the gold chain I had given her. Similarly, the three rings she was wearing at that time,” shares Sabita.
There were some issues with the buttons on Jigisha’s phone, so she had borrowed her mother’s phone at that time. She was carrying both the phones on the night she was abducted.
Jigisha’s phone wasn’t found, but Sabita’s phone was recovered by the police.
“I identified all the recoveries in the courtroom. Ours was a watertight case. Despite that, it took nine years,” she laments.
Source: Barandbench
