The Punjab and Haryana High Court has suspended the remaining sentence and granted bail to former sub-inspector of police Anand Dutta, one of many accused within the rape and homicide of a minor Bakarwal lady in Rasana village of Kathua district.
Reacting to the court docket order, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday stated that “the wheels of justice have completely collapsed”.
The court docket suspended the remaining sentence and jail time period of sacked police sub-inspector Anand Dutta on December 21 and ordered that he be launched on manufacturing of bailable bond.
On Monday, Justice Tejinder Singh Dhindsa and Justice Vinod S. Bhardwaj ordered suspension of remaining sentence of Dutta and granted him bail on manufacturing of non-public/bailable bond.
The Sessions Court in Pathankot in 2019 sentenced sub-inspector of Jammu and Kashmir Police Anand Dutta to 5 years imprisonment for destroying proof in a rape case after accepting Rs 4 lakh together with head constable Tilak Raj and particular police officer Surender Verma. Was heard As a bribe from retired income officer Sanji Ram, the principle accused within the case. Following their conviction, all three had been later sacked by the Jammu and Kashmir authorities.
“Disturbed that the policeman convicted of destruction of proof within the Kathua rape case was granted bail and his jail time period was suspended. Reacting to the court docket’s order on Saturday, PDP president Mufti tweeted that when a woman little one is raped and put to dying, it turns into clear that the wheel of justice has utterly collapsed. .
Earlier on December 16, the sentence of police head constable Tilak Raj, co-accused within the case, was stayed. Both Dutta and Tilak Raj have already served greater than half of the sentence awarded to them by the trial court docket.
The court docket had sentenced Sanjhi Ram to life imprisonment together with co-accused Deepak Khajuria and Parvesh Kumar within the case.
Eight-year-old lady murdered after rape in Kathua district In January 2018 and the decision within the case was pronounced by a court docket in Pathankot, Punjab on June 10, 2019, the place the case was transferred on the instructions of the Supreme Court.
In January 2018, an eight-year-old Bakarwal lady was allegedly gang-raped and murdered within the forests of Rasana village in Kathua district. The trial of the case was shifted to Pathankot by the Supreme Court after the relations of the sufferer feared risk to their lives. A good trial is suspected in J&Ok in view of the makes an attempt by some components to incite the bulk neighborhood in opposition to him.
After Mehbooba Mufti, the then chief minister who was heading the PDP-BJP coalition authorities, ordered a criminal offense department probe into the case, her two incumbent cupboard ministers – Chander Prakash Ganga and Chaudhary Lal Singh, publicly included relations and family of the accused. had joined. Demanding a CBI inquiry into the matter. After widespread public criticism, each the ministers had been later pressured by the BJP excessive command to surrender their cupboard berths.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
