LUCK: Researchers investigating Hathras case they have claimed that there is evidence to show that the main defendant was in regular contact with at least one member of the victim’s family until very recently.
Quotation call details log, police sources said Tuesday that there were at least 100 exchanges in five months between the mobile phone number of the main accused and another number registered in the name of the victim’s brother.
The CDR in possession of TOI has more than five hours of interchange between the two numbers between October 2019 and March 2020. Some of the calls have lasted more than a few minutes. Police now plan to seek a response from the victim’s brother on the matter.
Senior police officers who did not want to be subpoenaed said that the SIT was still conducting an investigation and that it would not be feasible for them to comment on the matter. However, they said that the police would soon carry out an investigation on the basis of the CDR.
Another police officer told TOI, on condition of anonymity, that during the investigation, some of the villagers had also said that those arrested used to keep in touch with the victim’s family.
(The identity of the victim has not been disclosed to protect her privacy per Supreme Court directives in cases involving sexual assault)
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