NEW DELHI: On Friday, the Central Bureau of Investigation filed a charge sheet against four defendants in the alleged gang rape and murder case in Hahtras in September this year. the CBI accused Ravi, Sandeep, Luv Kush and Rahul of gang rape, rape and murder. Presented in the court of Special Judge BD Bharti, the charge sheet also included charges under the provisions of the SC / ST Act.
The court has set January 4 as the next hearing date. The Lucknow court of the higher court overseeing the investigation will address the matter on January 27.
The UP government had recommended an IWC investigation into the case on October 2 following a national protest over the cremation of the girl after midnight by the local administration after she died in a Delhi hospital on 29 of September. September 14 in his village of Hathras.
The CBI had registered this FIR on the basis of the first FIR filed in the case at the Chandpa police station on September 14 for attempted murder and under the SC / ST Law against a Sandeep. The complainant in the case was the brother of the victim. He had declared to the FIR that on September 14, Sandeep had tried to rape and strangle his sister while working in the fields. But she raised an alarm in which her mother arrived at the scene and Sandeep fled.
She was rushed to an Aligarh hospital after her condition worsened. In another statement at the Aligarh hospital on September 22, the girl named three more young men from her village and accused them of raping her.
The defendant’s lawyer, Munna Singh Pundir, said that the victim’s death statement on September 22, in which she claimed that she had been attacked and named four young people from the village, was the basis for the IWC indictment. . All of the named youths were arrested by local police on September 26.
The 2,000-page charge sheet also includes separate reports from the four defendants who had undergone a Brain Electrical Oscillation Signature Test (BEOS) and a polygraph test at Gujarat University of Forensic Sciences (FSU) in Gandhinagar, last month. CBI sources said an analysis by central forensic experts of the girl victim’s post-mortem reports was also conducted prior to reaching the conclusions.
The victim’s brother, who had come to court under the protection of the CRPF, expressed his satisfaction with the charge sheet. “We have succeeded in the first step, but the battle is not over yet. It will only end after the four defendants receive punishment in the case, ”he told reporters.
He also said that the truth had been revealed. The girl’s sister-in-law said they wanted MTF Hathras to retire. That was his only demand now, he said.
However, in a press release on Friday, the IWC said: “The public is reminded that the above findings are based on the investigation conducted by the IWC and the evidence gathered by it. Under Indian law, the defendants are presumed They are innocent until their guilt is finally established after a fair trial. ”
The CBI character sheet confirming the gangrape comes after state and local police declared that no rape or gangrape had occurred, citing a report from the Agra Forensic Science Laboratory.
The case made headlines after the victim’s family alleged that the local administration hastily cremated her after midnight without her consent. After a national fury, the government formed an SIT to investigate the case and suspended four policemen, including the district police chief, eventually turning the case over to the CBI.
The Allahabd High Court learned suo motu of the child’s cremation without the presence of the family. Hearing a PIL, the Supreme Court also asked the Allahabad High Court to oversee the case.
The CBI investigating officer in the case is DSP of the Anti-Corruption Branch, Ghaziabad, Seema Pahuja.
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