Court rejects police report in minor’s rape case, orders fresh probe

  • | Saturday | 3rd November, 2018

She was found to be pregnant when she was rescued from Punjab and handed over to her family in March 2017. According to the police complaint, she was abducted by one of her acquaintances and handed over to a trafficking racket. Subsequently, she gave birth to a baby boy in September 2017. However, Ghaziabad police claimed in the court the girl was an adult, according to medical tests, and had “eloped”.As a result, the case was closed and the main accused, allegedly a man with political connections, let off. But the girl’s parents rejected the police theory.

GHAZIABAD: A local court has rejected the final report of the police in a case of rape and abduction of a 14-year-old girl from Sahibabad in December 2016 and ordered a re-investigation.Sahibabad police in the final report filed in the court on April 2, 2017, had stated that the girl was an adult and not a minor and had gone with the accused out of her own will, even as her parents had alleged that she was abducted and raped.The girl was recovered by the police three months later and found to be pregnant. Subsequently, she gave birth to a baby boy in September 2017. As the minor girl and her family had decided not to keep the child, he was taken into the care of district hospital administration for the first three months and then sent to a shelter home in Lucknow.Chief judicial magistrate Ravindra Prasad Gupta , in his order passed on October 15, observed that the inquiry in the case was not done properly by the investigating officer as the educational certificate provided by her parents was not included in the final report.“The investigating officer had submitted the final report on the basis of a medical examination which states the age of the survivor as 18 years. However, the education certificate which could have been an important evidence was not made a part of the investigation, due to which it is not clear whether the survivor was a minor or major at the time of the crime,” the court said.CJM Gupta accepted the protest petition of the girl’s parents and directed the Sahibabad SHO to conduct a fresh probe.The girl, a student of class VIII, had gone missing on December 4, 2016. According to the police complaint, she was abducted by one of her acquaintances and handed over to a trafficking racket. She was found to be pregnant when she was rescued from Punjab and handed over to her family in March 2017. Her father had alleged she was raped by two men. However, Ghaziabad police claimed in the court the girl was an adult, according to medical tests, and had “eloped”.As a result, the case was closed and the main accused, allegedly a man with political connections, let off. But the girl’s parents rejected the police theory.

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