The Next Date
Two months had passed and there was the fourth date of the case. Journalists and reporters’ numbers were getting reduced with each new date of the case.
These journalists need some spicy thing every other date. Which is not possible.
Some journalists, the serious ones. Were present on every other date of the case and were doing their job without adding any more ingredients to the story. And were presenting the story to the country.
All the court proceedings and accusations were going on quite well, suddenly someone from the people sitting in the court got up, said that she wants to say something. The judge orders her to say whatever she wants to say in the witness box.
“He tried to rape me” says Kriti Singhania, sister of Samar Singhania, when asked by Mr. d Souza during the court proceedings. Kriti was present at all of the previous hearings related to the case of her brother’s killing but never spoke.
“Your highness, here I want to get the focus on something a bit off from the case but” d Souza was speaking when he was interrupted by Sharma.
“Objection, your honor”
“Overruled”
“My dear colleague here does not even want me to complete. I was saying it’s a bit off from the case but has a very great influence on the character of Vivaan Ahuja”
“What is it all about, please be clear in your point” said the judge.
“Yes, your honor, what Kriti wanted to tell the whole court is offbeat and she is very right as well. Mr. Vivaan, I request you to show your six packs to the whole court. Take off your shirt, now”
“Objection, your honor! Mr. Albert here is doing character assassination and I can’t let my client suffer” said Mr. Sharma.
“Let him do what he is doing. This is no character assassination, this could be an important evidence, said Ms. Sarita Roy, the Judge.
Vivaan took his shirt off.
“Wow, I wish I could have such abs. Coming to the point, Vivaan turn around. What we all see now are signs of resistance that I’m sure Kriti would have shown” said Mr. Albert.
“Do you want to say something, Mr. Sharma?” said the judge.
“Thank you, your honor. What I feel is this is still character assassination and everyone is aware of the fact that a women resists by hitting the face of the attacker and not the back. What spots Mr. Vivaan has on his back are of something else and not resistance. And also, Kriti has never discussed anything related to this ever before in spite of being present in every date” explained Mr. Sharma.
“Mr. d Souza?” asked the judge.
“What I feel is if the attacker is much taller than the girl and if both are standing, then it seems impossible for her to attack on the face. That’s when she has to go for the back of the person. And this act of Vivaan also reflects what he can really be at times”
“Objection!”
“Denied”
“My only request from the court is to take this incident as evidence that Mr. Vivaan here, can go out of control at times and can do whatever he feels like doing”.
“Mr. Sharma, please proceed”
“Thank you, your honor. I just want to say that just these marks can’t prove that Vivaan is guilty of molestation. These can be mere co-incidence as well. Mr. d Souza, I guess I asked you something so I again request you to consider that as a question and give a valid explanation”
“Your highness, I want to say that maybe Kriti was a bit shy and did not want to discuss this in the first place itself”
“After hearing both the sides of the story, the court does not declare any judgment at this point, but this matter is not closed yet and there can be a future discussion on this whenever the court wants”
This was impacting on Vivaan. Because he had never imagined that someone whom he had known since very long would try to do something like this. Even Rajveer, had not thought that Vivaan could do something of this magnitude. Vivaan had to face a lot of flak after coming out of the court. Media was once again at its best in putting him in a category of bad character. Once again d Souza was on the leading side.