“The officers had taken me to obtain signatures on the documents to seal the evidence they had collected from the cremation site, the can that had been left there and my sister’s slippers,” the brother said.
The 15-member CBI team has been camping in Hathras during the last two days. On Tuesday morning they began with a visit to the Chandpa police station, where the first FIR had been registered, and interrogated the police officers there. At around 11 a.m., they went to the scene of the crime, mapped the field where the girl was allegedly gang-raped and strangled, and carried out a search operation for any evidence that may have so far gone unnoticed. . There the victim’s mother and brother were called in to help recreate the scene, which would be based on their statements.
Sources said the CBI team asked the mother, who had been foraging with the girl that morning, how far away she was when her daughter was allegedly gang-raped. She was also asked if anyone heard the girl when she asked for help, who saw her, in what condition and what was done after that. The older brother, who was not in the millet field at the time, according to his statement in the FIR, was asked when he had left, when he returned and who informed him of what happened. The procedures were recorded on video.
After more than two and a half hours of investigation and interrogation, the CBI team went to the place where the girl had been cremated by the police on September 30 at around 2.40 am. The two places are separated by a kilometer. The older brother of the victim was called and interrogated again. The remaining ashes were collected from the site (the brother had collected them earlier) and photographs were taken.
Then, the team left for the victim’s house, where they recorded statements from the family.
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