SC admits Manu Sharma's bail plea

RAY OF HOPE: Manu Sharma has been sentenced to life imprisonment in the Jessica Lall murder case.

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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday admitted the bail plea of Manu Sharma and Tony Gill, the two convicts in the Jessica Lall murder case, and issued notice to the Delhi Police on the same. The court will hear the bail application in the first week of April.

Manu Sharma has been sentenced to life imprisonment in the Jessica Lall murder case.

A Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan also admitted an appeal filed by Manu Sharma challenging the Delhi High Court verdict convicting him in the case.

Manu Sharma, son of senior Congress leader Venod Sharma, has been undergoing a life term in Tihar jail.

The SC Bench also issued a notice to the Delhi Police on a bail plea of Manu’s co-accused Amarjeet Singh Gill alias Tony Gill, who has been sentenced to four years' rigorous imprisonment for destruction of evidence.

The court issued the notice on another co-accused Vikas Yadav's plea for suspension of his sentence. The court posted the matter on their bail plea for the first week of April.

In his bail plea, Manu said that after an elaborate trial and after appreciating the oral and documentary evidence, the trial court had acquitted him.

He contended that he did not get a fair trial in the high court because of the media pressure, adding that through malicious and vicious campaign the media had browbeaten the high court judges as well as his counsel preventing free and fair hearing.

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