NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court has said that Bollywood actor Shayan Munshi and ballistic expert P S Manocha would face trial for perjury in the Jessica Lall murder case.
The Delhi HC let off 17 other witnesses.
A bench of justices S Ravindra Bhat and G P Mittal pronounced its decision on Wednesday in the case in which the high court had taken suo motu cognisance and questioned the prosecution as to how all the witnesses took somersault during the trial.
It had reserved its order on May 4, 2011, after hearing arguments on behalf of police and the witnessess who had turned hostile.
Lall was shot dead in April 1999 by Manu Sharma, son of Haryana Congress leader Venod Sharma after she refused to serve a drink to him at a late night party at socialite Bina Ramani’s restaurant Tamarind Court here in South Delhi.
The high court, which reversed trial court’s verdict on December 18, 2006, awarded life imprisonment to Manu Sharma.
Munshi, who had lodged the FIR in the case, had pleaded to the court not to prosecute him saying, “He cannot be termed hostile as even the apex court had used part of his deposition in convicting the accused.” Munshi, the complainant in the case, had disowned the complaint during the trial, saying he did not know Hindi. (Agencies)