Sorry state of affairs! When this incident was reported in 2006, everyone in National Capital Region (NCR) was shaken from head to toes. Rape, murder and cannibalism were the allegations against the accused. Everybody was led to believe that the crime has been solved. One of the alleged culprits, Koli, was sentenced to death. But now the situation has entirely changed. In 2023, the High Court reversed the conviction and now the Supreme Court has confirmed the acquittal. The question now is how the victim girls went missing. How is that parts of dead bodies were found near the house where the accused were staying? These questions remain outstanding after acquittal by two courts. The situation now becomes still more grim. If these two persons did not do it, then who did it? Should the criminal law administration machinery now treat the case as closed? There ought to be further probe. It is dangerous for the security of the society that the crime remains unresolved. This is the not the first incident. This happened in Aarushi-Hemraj death case also. The dead girl’s parents were convicted by trial court but High Court acquitted them, finding several infirmities in prosecution case. The question in both cases is, who real killers are? This is the question which scares an ordinary person in the society. Are they still at large? Such cases should not be closed after acquittal by the Supreme Court. The investigation agency should
keep probing internally and try to find out answer. The investigation agency must also conduct internal evaluation why prosecution flopped. One humble advice to mainstream media and social media. Do not indulge in sensational stories to outsmart your competitors. Do not foment the ad hoc stories tossed by investigation agencies. Demand from them that the case should be built on firm foundation. The investigation agencies in order to satisfy public outcry in a heinous crime generally toss an interim story and the media gives full blown publicity to it, and after some years the situation suddenly changes. Public is fooled both by investigation agencies as well as media. Do not readily believe when the police tells in a press briefing that suspects have confessed crime. There are many reasons for confession before police. Their third degree methods are well-known to courts. Once police is able to build up a believable story, they push the case for trial irrespective of loose ends in the case. That is the bitter reality of criminal law administration system. When the trial fails, hardly anyone is held responsible for the flopped investigation. 