Hours after registering the FIR, a CBI team arrived in Hathras and met with the police superintendent. Hathras SP Vineet Jaiswal He told TOI that a CBI team came to the district and searched for documents about the victim’s case, which includes the dairy case and other evidence collected during the investigation. “All the paperwork is finished today. His investigation will begin tomorrow, ”said a senior police official, adding that the team has not yet met with the victim’s family. Fifteen CBI officials are expected to be in Hathras over the next two weeks, a senior police officer said.
The CBI would also be investigating the forced cremation, if so by local police, the allegation of negligence in not writing a rape case on Sept. 14, the family alleges.
Meanwhile, the SIT formed by the UP government will continue its investigation into the role of the police in the cremation incident. “That investigation is not related to the main case,” added the main police officer.
A CBI spokesperson said the case had been assigned to its Ghaziabad unit with a special team to investigate the crime. The agency registered the case on the basis of the first FIR registered at the Chandpa police station in Hathras on September 14, one hour after the incident, for attempted murder and under the SC / ST Law against the main defendant Sandeep. The complainant in the case was the brother of the victim. The 19-year-old girl died at the Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi on September 29. He had suffered multiple fractures and paralysis in a brutal attack on 14 September in his village of Hathras.
“The IWC today registered a case against a defendant and has taken over the investigation of the case, previously registered … in … Hathras (Uttar Pradesh) in a complaint. The author had alleged that on 14 September 2020 the accused tried to strangle his sister in the millet field … A team has been formed. The investigation continues, ”a CBI press release said on Sunday. The investigating officer in the case is DSP (ACB, Ghaziabad) Seema Pahuja.
The notification issued by the Center at the request of the UP government requested the IWC to investigate violations, murders and atrocities and “any attempt, complicity and / or conspiracy, in relation or in connection with such crimes and / or for any other crime committed in the course of the same transaction or derived from the same events ”.
The author had stated in the FIR that Sandeep had tried to strangle his sister while working in the fields. But she raised the alarm and her mother arrived at the scene. After that, Sandeep fled the scene. Based on the incident, a case of attempted murder and the ST / SC Act were recorded. However, the victim later claimed to have been raped. Subsequently, the Police added the rape section against the same accused on September 19 on the victim’s statement at the JN Medical hospital. The next day, the police arrested the main defendant.
Subsequently, on September 22, the victim claimed that she was gang-raped by three other youths from the same town and the police added the criminal section for gang-rape and by September 26, all the accused were arrested.
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