Four years after three youths obtained a clear chit from the police in reference to the gang rape and homicide of a 32-year-old lady registered in Lalitpur district, the crime department of the state CID has registered a case in opposition to the investigating officer (IO). Case of non-collection of proof in opposition to the accused throughout investigation.
The police had reportedly initially refused to register the case and ultimately did so on the orders of the courtroom.
The Crime Branch, which took over the case on the directions of the federal government, got here to know throughout its investigation that the primary investigating officer of the case, Mahesh Chandra Gautam, had not despatched samples of the sufferer’s garments and viscera to the forensic science laboratory for examination.
It accused Gautam, who was then in-charge of the police station involved, of not registering an FIR on the time of the incident.
“During the investigation, the CID collected a sample of the victim’s clothes and viscera kept at the local police station and sent them to the forensic science laboratory for examination. Her clothes were unwashed and the lab said in its report that it had picked up traces of sperm on them. Later the sperm match was done with all the three accused,” stated Inspector Subhadra Verma of CB CID, who re-investigated within the case.
He stated the police had earlier this month filed a chargesheet in opposition to three accused, who’re additionally neighbors of the sufferer. They have been charged with gang rape and homicide.
All the accused, all underneath the age of 30, have been arrested and put behind the bars.
On Friday, the Crime Branch had earlier booked the IO underneath IPC sections 166 (disobedience to regulation by public servant with intent to trigger damage to any particular person), 166-A (disobedience to instructions underneath public servant regulation) and 217 (disobedience to public servant). ) filed an FIR. The present SHO of the native police station, Manoj Kumar Verma, stated the course of the regulation meant to guard the particular person from punishment or confiscation of property.
Gautam, who was promoted to the submit of Deputy Superintendent of Police, is presently posted as Circle Officer of Moradabad district.
Police stated the incident dates again to April 2017, when the sufferer and her six-year-old daughter had gone out within the subject within the night. Her daughter returned house alone and instructed her father that three neighboring youths had taken her mom with them. When she didn’t return house, her husband, the complainant and different relations went out searching for her. They discovered his lifeless physique hanging from a tree within the subject. Crime Branch stated that the police has taken the physique in possession and despatched it for autopsy.
It was alleged that the native police had initially introduced that the lady had died of suicide and closed the investigation. However, her husband saved on going to the native police, requesting them to register a case, claiming that she was gang-raped and murdered earlier than being hanged from a tree.
As the police refused to register a case, the complainant moved the courtroom and filed an FIR in opposition to three of his neighbors on costs of gang rape and homicide in June, 2017.
Verma stated that after the police gave a clear chit to the accused by submitting a closure report within the case, he lodged a grievance with the National Human Rights Commission which directed the federal government to conduct a contemporary probe by the crime department.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
