The Supreme Court has dismissed the petition seeking for transfer of the gruesome Delhi gang-rape case out side the Delhi. Thus the way has been cleared to hear the case in the capital.
The apex court bench headed by Chief Justice Altamas Kabir dismissed the transfer petition upon the receipt of the sessions judge's report that the accused, on whose behalf the transfer petition was moved, does not want to be represented by advocate M.L. Sharma.
Rejecting the transfer petition, the court said that the advocate has no locus standi to appear in the matter on behalf of one of the gang-rape accused, Mukesh.
The apex court had asked the sessions judge, trying the Dec 16, 2012, gang-rape case, to ascertain as to whom the accused would like to engage as his counsel in the course of the last hearing of the case.
The situation arose after another advocate, V.K. Anand, told the court that it was he who actually represented the accused before the trial court.
The session's judge, in his report to the apex court, which was opened Tuesday in the courtroom, said that the accused wanted to be represented by advocate Anand.
Anand, in the course of the last hearing, said that he was not seeking any transfer of trial outside delhi.
(With inputs from IANS)
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