 No Karnal lawyer would adopt the case, so Manoj's family had to find lawyers from Hisar. Later on Adv. Sunil Rana from karnal accepted the case, arguing on their behalf public prosecutor Sunil Rana and lawyers Lal Bahadur, Surat Singh, Cornel Omparkash, and Rakesh Manjhu from Hisar, Haryana. Bahadur argued that the couples' clothes recovered from the canal and photographs from the Scorpio established that day's happenings. Bahadur also cited the contractor's statement and the last phone call from Manoj, in which Manoj had related that Babli's relatives were trailing them. However, the contractor "turned hostile" and withdrew his statement.
