Manu Sharma’s Murder Confession

Since the beginning of the Jessica Lall retrial, the media section across the nation have contributed in bringing together many hidden facts and countless loopholes in the Indian judiciary system and make it public.

A gruesome but straightforward murder case of Jessica Lall, was twisted & molded by the people in authority and the accused, all of this simply setting an example that in our country “Money talks and Killers walk-off”.

And here is yet another proof of our judiciary corruption.

India’s leading news channel NDTV was able to go thru the content of an audio CD in which Manu Sharma’s confession of shooting Jessica Lall is claimed to have been recorded. The confession was recorded by Delhi Police, seven days after the murder when Manu Sharma had surrendered.

The content has been published on NDTV website.

Police: Did you know Malini Ramani before?

Manu: No, sir. There was Jessica Lall, I did not know her name.

I was told even if you give a thousand bucks, I will not give a sip of wine and I said that we have got an arrangement there. I pulled out my pistol there.

Police: How much did you pay for this (gun)?

Manu: Sir, I have a license from Chandigarh and bought it from Ambala for about Rs 16,000 and I fired one shot in the air.

Police: Air?

Manu: Yes, that is inside the Colonade. So it went into the roof and nobody bothered, nobody moved. Then I pointed at Jessica and what I intended to do was I pointed slightly away from her so that I could see her hair, I wanted to generally shoot.

Police: What was the idea?

Manu: The idea at that time was to shoot in challenge. It was embarrassing to hear that even if I paid a thousand bucks I would not get a sip of drink.

I pointed towards her a little and fired the shot.

However, the Inspector incharge of the case did not consider the audio CD as a crucial piece of evidence and therefore never presented it in the court during the first trial.

The Delhi Police tried to cover-up this lapse in investigation by stating that the CD could not be taken as evidence since the confession was recorded without the presence of a magistrate, which is needed to prove its authencity in the court. However many lawyers have an opinion that the CD should have been presented in the court and the decision of its validity as an evidence should have been left of the judges to decide.

One may even argue that maybe the CD was made by the officials in-charge of the case, inorder to be used for blackmailing and thereby extorting money from the accused. And therefore the recorded confession in the absence of a magistrate was never meant to be used as evidence.

But now that the audio CD has made its way to the media and its contents have been disclosed, it has surely put an additional pressure on the Delhi Police to prove its capability and do whatever it takes to put the accused Manu Sharma behind bars for his horrendous crime.