New Delhi: Actor and model Shyan Munshi, a key witness in the sensational Jessica Lall murder case, said he is relieved after Monday’s verdict which convicted Manu Sharma, Vikas Yadav and Amardeep Gill.
Munshi, who was called in April to testify in the case, turned hostile and retracted his earlier statement given to the police.
During the trial, he had claimed that he did not know Hindi and was not even aware of the FIR that he had signed earlier.
But would he have changed his stand had he been given a second chance?
“I would have the same story to tell. There was some miscommunication earlier. But I am relieved that the case is over and the verdict has come in favour of the Lall’s. May peace be with the Lall’s,” Munshi told CNN-IBN.
Meanwhile, Bina Ramani, key witness and the crunch factor in the murder case, had said that she was standing on the steps of Tamarind Court on that fateful night when Munshi came running to her and told her that ‘a short plump man in the white T-shirt (later identified as Manu Sharma) had shot Jessica’.
“I just came outside and said someone has shot Jessica. That was my duty. I didn’t know people in Delhi,” Munshi said reacting to Bina Ramani’s claim.
Had Bina done this in 2001-2002, there would not have been so much confusion and the verdict wouldn’t have been prolonged,” the actor added.
Munshi also said the experience had been a harassing one for him and his wife actress and former VJ Piya Rai Chaudhuri when they were stopped at the Kolkata Airport when the couple were leaving for their honeymoon.
“It was a harassing experience, but a long learning experience nonetheless. I have matured a lot in the last one year,” he said,
When asked what his suggestions were for the witness protection programme, Shyan said, “It should be brought into effect. The government should empower the people.”
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