The Punjab and Haryana High Court has directed the DCP of the Punjab Police to type a brand new three-member all-female SIT (Special Investigation Team) to probe the allegations leveled by a 38-year-old girl who claimed to have raped her. The CIA (Crime Investigation Agency) was a policeman from Bathinda and an alleged Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act case filed towards his son.
A bench of Justice Arun Monga handed the order whereas listening to the plea of ​​the sufferer, who by way of her lawyer advocate Gurpreet Singh Bhasin, argued that her son, who’s round 19-20 years previous, is at his residence whereas he’s on the Kovid-19 transition. Was troubled / wholesome, picked up by CIA law enforcement officials on March 6 at 10 am. The girl claimed that her son was arrested after he refused to succumb to the sexual needs demanded by him by a CIA policeman. An FIR was lodged towards her son underneath the NDPS Act by imposing prohibited materials, which was allegedly false. Later, underneath stress to launch her son, the girl claimed that she acceded to the demand made by CIA workers.
The petitioner (sufferer) has additionally launched a pen drive within the HC to substantiate his allegations with some reside video clipping together with recorded conversations between him and accused ASI (CIA Staff Bathinda).
On a query by the HC relating to the steps taken thus far within the FIR lodged on May 12 underneath Section 376 (rape) of the IPC in PS Cantt, District Bathinda, on the petitioner’s grievance, the state’s counsel submitted that the formation of a SIT Has been carried out to analyze.
However, Justice Monga slammed the Punjab Police, saying, “It is quite intriguing, given the nature of sensitive investigation, that no female police officer is involved in the SIT, which is otherwise required by law in cases.” Kind. To say the least, the insensitivity with which the district law enforcement officials have shaped the SIT, through which all the lads had been members, may be very unhappy to see.
Justice Monga then directed the DGP Punjab Police to represent a brand new SIT, which can now be chaired by Gurpreet Dev, ADGP with two different members D Sudarvizhi, SSP, Sri Muktsar Sahib and Prabhjot Kaur, DSP, Budhlada as chairman. , Mansa.
It was additional instructed by the HC that the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bathinda, would additionally acquire FSL report in relation to the audio / video recording made by the petitioner from his mobile phone, which might be offered to the courtroom, which might be thought of because the property of the case. As a part of.
Justice Monga stated that for the reason that counsel for the petitioner said that he feared that the law enforcement officials concerned within the case would possibly attempt to trigger him bodily hurt and tamper with the proof, the state’s counsel would search instructions as to what steps have been taken thus far Huh. Taken underneath the “Witness Protection Scheme, 2018”. And the state’s lawyer can be anticipated to ask for instructions relating to the time interval inside which the investigation might be accomplished.
The Punjab Police has already been dismissed from service by the accused ASI, who has been booked for the alleged rape.
.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
