A special court has directed the owner of the bus, in which a 23-year-old paramedical student was gang-raped by six men on December 16 last year, to be produced as a prosecution witness to state as to whom he had handed over the custody of the vehicle on the night of the incident.
Besides the bus owner, the carpenter, who was lured into the bus and robbed by the accused before gang-raping the girl, has also been summoned as prosecution witness.
Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna issued production warrant for Thursday for Dinesh Yadav, the owner of the bus, who is at present lodged in Tihar jail following his arrest for cheating and procuring the bus licenses and plying it on Capital roads illegally.
The court direction came on the application filed by the police seeking its permission to call Dinesh as a prosecution witness in the case. “Considering the facts and circumstances and as offence was committed inside the bus, it is important to find out as to who he had handed over the custody of the bus on the night of December 16, 2012. His evidence becomes relevant. Hence it is just and proper to call prosecution witness Dinesh Yadav,” the court said.