Vijayawada: The verdict in the sensational Ayesha Meera murder case is likely to be pronounced on August 25 after completion of the trial proceedings on Monday. The womens special sessions court on the final day of proceedings,however,refused to entertain a petition filed by the lone accused,Pidathala Satyam Babu,to grant more time to question the prosecution witness as a separate petition was pending in the high court.After dismissing the defence counsels plea,sessions court judge P Srisudha posted the case to August 25,the day final judgment is likely to be pronounced. Ayesha Meera,a first year B Pharm student of a private college at Ibrahimpatnam on the outskirts of Vijayawada,was found murdered in her hostel room on December 27,2007.Subsequently,an autopsy report confirmed that the girl was raped before being killed. Though police surmised that it was an act of a psycho killer,the parents of the girl and human rights activists said Aye s h a was murdered only to hush up the misdeeds in the hostel to which the victim was said to be a witness.Shockingly,the girl was killed just hours after she reached the hostel from a vacation in her native place of Tenali in Guntur. The incident created ripples in the state with the parents alleging the role of some ruling party leaders.The police investigation was also mired in several controversies.Ironically,the police filed a chargesheet against a notorious dacoit Balvinder Singh alias Laddu naming him as the main accused and sent him behind the bars.
After the AP Forensic Science Laboratory (APFSL ) authorities disapproved their claims,the police brought Satyam,a small-time offender in Jagg a i a h - pet,into the pict u re.T he ch a r g e against the police was that they deliberately made efforts to save some political leaders in the case at the behest of late deputy CM Koneru Rangarao.Police negligence in protecting the scene of offence itself came in for criticism. The prosecution questioned as many as 34 witnesses though they had named nearly 49 persons in the chargesheet.They produced 61 documents to prove the charges against Satyam,who was arrested on August 16,2008,almost a year after the incident.
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