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PRJ-LIVE-DL-1999-JESSICAStalkingCLOSED CONVICTED✓ Conviction

Location: Delhi, Delhi

Incident: 1999-04-29

IPC Sections: 302, 201, 120

Victims: 1

Data confidence:99%

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Timeline · 4 events

  1. FIR FILEDMilestone99%

    Model Jessica Lal shot dead at social party, Qutub Colonnade, New Delhi. Manu Sharma (son of Congress MP) accused; eye-witnesses present. FIR filed; Sharma arrested.

    IK
  2. VERDICT PRONOUNCEDMilestone99%

    Additional Sessions Court acquits all 9 accused citing hostile witnesses and "benefit of doubt." National outrage and media-driven candle-light vigils follow. Delhi HC takes suo motu notice.

    Court: Additional Sessions Court, Delhi

    HINDU
  3. VERDICT PRONOUNCEDMilestone99%

    Delhi High Court convicts Manu Sharma for murder; sentences to life imprisonment. Court holds witness intimidation cannot defeat justice.

    Court: Delhi High Court

    LL
  4. VERDICT PRONOUNCEDMilestone99%

    Supreme Court upholds life sentence for Manu Sharma. SC holds that reversal of acquittal warranted when lower court verdict is "perverse." Manu Sharma remains imprisoned.

    Court: Supreme Court of India

    IK

Key Milestones

  • ◆1999-04-30FIR FILED
  • ◆2006-02-21VERDICT PRONOUNCED
  • ◆2006-12-20VERDICT PRONOUNCED
  • ◆2010-04-19VERDICT PRONOUNCED
Privacy notice: Victim identities are protected via cryptographic pseudonymisation. Accused names may be partially redacted pending conviction. All data sourced from public records.