A Delhi court on Thursday reserved the order in the Danish woman gangrape case for January 21. The final arguments in the case, where nine persons, including three juveniles, were arrested for raping a 52-year-old Danish woman, have been completed.
Additional Sessions Judge Kaveri Baweja heard the final arguments from the prosecution and the counsel for the accused and fixed the date for pronouncement of the verdict.
As per prosecution, the nine accused robbed and gangraped the Danish woman at knife-point on the night of January 14, 2014, after taking her to a secluded spot close to the Divisional Railway Officer's Club near New Delhi Railway Station.
All the nine accused were arrested. The six adult accused — Mahendra alias Ganja (26), Mohd Raja (22), Raju (23), Arjun (21), Raju Chakka (22) and Shyam lal (55) — are in judicial custody and facing trial.
Three of the accused were juveniles against whom enquiry before the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) is in progress.
The nine accused are facing charges of alleged gangrape, kidnapping, wrongful confinement, dacoity with an attempt to cause death or grievous hurt, criminal intimidation and receiving stolen property under the IPC.
During the final arguments today, counsel for the accused alleged there were deficiencies in the prosecution evidence and several missing links in the story of police.