21 February 2006: Manu Sharma, the prime accused, and all the other eight accused are acquitted by the Delhi court which held that the police had failed to prove its case. Delivering the verdict, Additional Sessions Judge S L Bhayanasaid the accused had to be acquitted as three key eye witnesses -- model-turned actor Shayan Munshi, Karan Rajput and Shiv Das, the electrician at the restaurant where the model was shot dead -- had turned hostile.Others acquitted in the case are Vikas Yadav, Manu's uncle Shyam Sunda Sharma,Amardeep Singh Gill and Alok Khanna, both former Coco Cola execctives, cricketerYuvraj Singh's father Yograj Singh, Harvinder Singh, Vikas Gill and Raja Chopra.
12 April 2005: Manu Sharma, the prime accused, is granted regular bail by the Delhi High Court.
15 October 2004: The Delhi High Court grants three month's interim bail to ManuSharma.
2 December 2003: The Supreme Court dismisses Manu Sharma's bail pleas and laments that in the present day society even if a murder takes place before a large gatheringno one comes forward to help the prosecution.
31 October 2002: Prosecution fails to produce another eyewitness, Dinesh Kumar, aNepalese citizen who had left India after the murder, after Nepalese authorities decline to serve summons to him stating that there was no such provision in theKingdom's law to serve summons issued by a foreign court on its citizens.
28 may 2002: The Delhi High Court further extends the interim bail of ManuSharma till August 1 with a warning that it would be cancelled immediately if he made an attempt to tamper with the evidence or influence the witnesses.
20 March 2002: Nine days after his surrender to the trial court, the Delhi High Court once again grants two-and-half months' bail to Manu Sharma.
25 January 2005: The Delhi High Court grants interim bail of six weeks to Manu Sharma but directs him not to leave India and to stay away from the National Capital Territory during the bail period.
16 January 2002: Another prosecution witness Gajender Singh, a manager in Hotel Siriska Palace, Alwar, turns hostile after refusing to identify Vikas Yadav. Singh in hisearlier statement to the police had said that Yadav had stayed in the hotel on May 9-10, 1999 under a fictitious name Suresh Shekhar.
7 January 2006: Fashion designer Rohit Bal stands by his statement that he had telephonedthe police when the model was shot dead.
6 November 2001: Delhi Police constable Sarvan Kumar identifies Vikas Yadav and Amardeep Singh Gill who had driven away a parked vehicle outside the Qutub Colonnade complex, after Jessica Lall was shot dead.
17 October 2001: Fashion designer Rouble Dunglay turns hostile by retracting from a statement he had made to the police about the events on the night the ramp model was shot. He says that he had not actually seen Bina Ramani, but had heard a voice saying that Jessica Lall had been shot.
12 October 2001: Bina Ramani identifies Manu Sharma as the person whom she had tried toprevent from escaping after the model was shot at her Tamarind Court restaurant.