Lucknow, Feb. 10 -- The trial court in the Apple executive Vivek Tewari murder case gave another chance to the defence to produce its first witness on the next hearing on February 17 after he did not appear before the court to record his statement on Monday.

This was the second time that the defence witness did not turn up in court to record his statement. Before, the defence had to produce its first witness out of three in court on January 30.

The hearing is going on in the court of additional district hudge (1) Narendra Kumar, and

the trial has reached the final stage. Now, the defence has to produce all its three witnesses in court to record statements.

"The prosecution has presented all eight witnesses in court. Examination of pri...