Bijal raped and killed by rogue police indifference.

Bijal gangrape: Life for Delhi trader

Gujarat Court Also Awards Life Term To 4 Of Sajal Friends For Sexual Assault In ’04

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Ahmedabad: In yet another instance of the law catching up with the rich and influential, Delhi-based businessman Sajal Jain and his four friends were sentenced to life imprisonment by an Ahmedabad sessions court on Friday, four-and-a-half years after they gangraped 24-year-old Bijal Joshi after a New Year eve party.

Bijal, with whom Sajal was in an extra-marital relationship, was celebrating with Sajal and his friends until the party went awry. The five youths, who were on a boozing binge, spiked her drink, and raped and burned her with cigarette stubs in the hotel room of a tony Ahmedabad area. They then drove off and abandoned her in a car on a highway. The rapists called up her sister, Vaishali, early next morning asking her to pick up Bijal.

JUSTICE AT LAST

December 31, 2003 |
Bijal Joshi, 24, drugged and gangraped by five men, including the man she loved, Delhi-based businessman Sajal Jain, in Ashok Palace hotel in Ahmedabad
January 1, 2004 |
At 4 am, rape accused Sugam Jaiswal phones Bijal’s sister Vaishali and tells her to pick up Bijal from Sola Road in Ahmedabad lying unconscious in his car
Jan 1 |
Bijal waits for 4 hours before a complaint is lodged and medical examination is conducted

Jan 3 and 4 |
Vaishali gets 19 calls and several SMSes, most of them from Sajal. Sajal’s brother-in-law Vinay offers Rs 10 lakh to her father to withdraw the complaint

Jan 7 |
Bijal commits suicide. She leaves a note naming her rapists and seeks justice

Jan 9 |
Sajal goes underground

Jan 11 |
Gujarat cops track down Sajal to the ICU of a Delhi hospital

Jan 16 |
Vital evidence like Bijal’s undergarments go missing from Sugam’s car which was in police custody. Other proof like bedlinen too go missing

Feb 12 |
Semen samples from the hotel match Sajal’s DNA

May 4, 2006 |
Sajal refuses bail in the rape case.

June 20, ’08 |
Court sentences 5 accused to life term

Unable to bear the humiliation and sheer physical torture—she was also beaten up by the gang—Bijal hung herself on January 7, 2004, leaving behind a note accusing Sajal (33), his friends Chandan (27) and Ashok alias Mandan Jaiswal (26), Sugam Jaiswal (26) and Dharmendra alias Karan Jain (30) and Manish Jain of driving her to suicide.

While Manish Jain has been absconding ever since, the five have been lodged as undertrials in Sabarmati Central jail for the last five years.

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Like those convicted in the Jessica Lall and Nitish Katara cases, the accused in Bijal’s gangrape were from influential business families based in Delhi, Ahmedabad and Ajmer. They did their best to ensure that the case collapsed and nearly succeeded in their bid. On Friday, additional sessions judge Jyotsnaben Yagnik gave the verdict in a crowded courtroom holding the five guilty and punished them with rigorous imprisonment for life under the relevant sections of the IPC, adding one year for torturing Bijal, apart from fining them to the tune of Rs 28,000. The sentences are to run concurrently.

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