JESSICA LAL MURDER CASE

Jessica Lal was a stunning and ambitious girl who by profession was a model and worked in an  unlicensed bar at the Tamarind Court Restaurant .Been a model she had a bit of luminary image in the bar.At the night of 30th of April, 1999 ,she was at the restaurant as a bartender .Around 12:30 AM  Siddhartha Vashisht alias Manu Sharma came with his three friends in the bar and reached to the counter.There was Jessica Lal finalising the routine pack up as the liquor was out of stock due to over crowding .Suddenly Manu Sharma arrived and told Jessica Lal to serve liquoar but as that was out of stock ,she refused to did so.Manu Sharma being a rich brat ,son of a politician Venod Sharma who  at the time was a minister in Haryana Cabinet .This refusal from Jessica Lal hurt his ego and audacity specially in front of his friends.He took out the .22 caliber pistol and pointed towards her and coerce her one more time to served the liquoar and to threatened her he fired a bullet to the ceiling fan but she encore and denied him to served any liquoar. In the rage and moment Manu Sharma fired the second bullet which directly hit the Jessica's head and she was dead instantly.There siad that the owner of the bar Bina Ramani ordered to clean the blood on the premises and the other evidence as well.Manu Sharma finally arrested on May 6th,1999.Charge sheet was filed on 3rd of August ,1999 and he was accused of murder,destruction of evidence etc.It lasted almost seven years ,in 2006 21st february Sharma was declared non-guilty and set free .But due to the rage and extravagant chaos in the media and public ,the case was reopen and the Delhi Police filed the petition to the Delhi High Court .On March 22,2006 the court had summoned and released the warrant against Manu Sharma and all the other accused,the trial gone for 9 months and finally Jessica Sharma found justice,Manu Sharma was convicted guilty to life imprisonment and fine.
It took seven long years to seek the justice for a girl whose only fault is that she stood with her esteem and pride against the regular rich brats of high class.