A city court has allowed the mother of an accused, involved in the schoolgirl’s gangrape case in 2006, to sell the Scorpio car, in which the victim was allegedly raped as they drove across the West Delhi.Additional Sessions Judge V P Vaish permitted Varun Popli’s mother, a senior nurse with a hospital, to sell the car after she pleaded she was facing financial difficulties. The case had shocked the Capital as a 17-year-old had alleged that the four accused -— Varun Popli, Kunal Kapoor, Varun Sehgal and Devender — had forcibly pulled her into the Scorpio car and raped her in the moving vehicle while she was returning from her tuition classes on December 26, 2006. They had allegedly later left her near her house around midnight.During investigation, the police claimed to have recovered four notebooks, which the victim had left behind in the Scorpio. All the accused have been refused bail by the trial court and the High Court. The vehicle was returned to Popli’s mother on ‘superdari’ (security deposit) in March last year. She had subsequently moved an application, saying she was being treated for coronary and cardiac problems and was in dire need of money.At the recent hearing, the counsel for all the accused submitted they had no issues if she was allowed to sell the Scorpio car as the vehicle was already identified by the victim during her testimony and there could be no other reason to deny her permission.Finding nothing objectionable, ASJ Vaish then permitted the applicant to sell the vehicle with the condition asking her to furnish the complete particulars of purchaser within a week of selling the same.
