Come prepared with questions: Gangrape trial defence told

The defence cross-examined the investigating officer in the case — a woman sub-inspector posted at Vasant Vihar police station.

Singh said since the investigating officer did not ask any members of the public to join the probe during the seizure of exhibits,including the bloodstained bedsheet,it implied that the bedsheet was a “planted evidence” got from the hospital and not the hotel,as claimed by police earlier.

Singh argued that after reaching the hospital on December 17,the sub-inspector first met the maternal uncle of the complainant in the case — the victim’s 28-year-old friend who was with her at the time of the incident.

The defence claimed that the officer met the uncle with an intention to save complainant and falsely implicate Vinay and Akshay.

The counsel said the first supplementary statement by the complainant did not mention that the word ‘Yadav’ was written on the bus and did not say if the front wheel of the bus had a cap or not.

“The whole investigation,including the arrest of the accused,was made on the basis that the bus used in the crime had ‘Yadav’ written on it. But the same was not mentioned anywhere in the statement that was given by the complainant. It proves that these facts were cooked up,” Singh said.