Phoolan Devi Murder Case: Trial Shifted To Fast Track Court

Phoolan Devi Murder Case: Trial Shifted To Fast Track Court 21 Jan 2009, 1948 hrs IST, PTI NEW DELHI: Trial in the sensational murder case of bandit-turned-politician Phoolan Devi was today transferred to a fast track court by the District Judge on the request of an accused. The hearing in the matter, which was earlier being conducted by Additional Sessions Judge J R Aryan, would now be conducted by fast track court Additional Sessions Judge B K Garg. District and Sessions Judge Mamta Sehgal transferred the murder case of Samajwadi Party MP Phoolan Devi on the application sent by accused Pradeep Singh from Tihar jail here. In his application, Singh, one of the accused who is in jail since 2001 alongwith 10 other accused, including prime suspect Sher Singh Rana, had alleged the trial court had so far examined only 129 out of 220 witnesses in the case during the last seven years. The matter is more than seven years old and be put for hearing in a Fast track court as mandated by a Delhi High Court order, he had pleaded. Taking into consideration the plea of Singh, supported by other accused, the court had on January 6 issued a notice to the prosecution, which did not object to the request for the case being shifted to a fast track court during the proceedings today. Rana along with 11 others had allegedly conspired and killed the bandit-turned-politician and Samajwadi Party MP to avenge the 1981 Behmai massacre, in which she had killed 17 people of the Thakur caste. The assailants had dropped their weapons at the murder spot after killing Phoolan Devi outside her 44 Ashoka Road residence here on July 25, 2001.

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