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8 days after UP govt recommendation, CBI finally registers case in Hathras ‘gang-rape’

Central govt notified Sunday that the CBI will take over the investigation, and the agency's Ghaziabad branch under Lucknow zone will conduct a fresh probe.

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New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Sunday officially registered a case into the alleged gang-rape and murder of a 19-year-old Dalit woman in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras.

The agency’s move came almost eight days after UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath recommended a CBI probe, amid a growing political storm over the death of the victim and her hurried cremation by the administration without the presence of her family. The opposition has even called for the CM’s resignation over the issue.

Adityanath had said on 3 October that the UP government was “determined to ensure the harshest punishment for those guilty”. The central government issued a notification Sunday that the CBI will take over the investigation. The agency formally registered the case in the morning.

“The Central Bureau of Investigation has today registered a case against an accused and taken over the investigation of the case, earlier registered at Chandpa police station in Hathras on a complaint,” the agency said in a statement.

“The complainant had alleged that on 14 September the accused tried to strangulate his sister in the millet field. The case has been registered by CBI on the request of Uttar Pradesh government and further notification from Government of India,” it added.

The woman was allegedly raped by four upper caste men on 14 September. She died two weeks later on 29 September. The accused — Sandeep, 20, his uncle Ravi, 35, and their friends Ramu, 26, and Luvkush, 23 — have been booked for charges of murder, gang-rape and violation of the SC/ST Act.

‘Needs thorough re-investigation’

According to sources, the Hathras case will now be probed by the Ghaziabad branch of CBI’s Lucknow Zone. A team has already been constituted for the probe.

“The team will visit the crime scene along with forensic experts. The team will recreate the crime and also look for fresh evidence. The team will also analyse the tower locations of the accused, their call detail records,” said a CBI source.

“The case needs to be re-investigated thoroughly. All the evidence, whether circumstantial, scientific or technical, will be analysed to reach a logical conclusion,” the source said.


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3 COMMENTS

  1. what difference will it make giving it to cbi? nothing, they didn’t do anything even in arushi case nor in the latest ssr case. they fooled themselves even in babri masjid case.. country knows very well that cbi is full of bhakts and they’ll surely do nothing, its cheat bureau of interests

  2. No-rape becomes gang-rape in Theprint in a true librandu style spreading lies and justifying lies with another lies. Every librandu repeating the same lie as if librandus have learnt lies.

  3. A student named RAHUL in DELHI. Any idea who murdered him and why.

    HATHRAS case is important but “THE CHHAPPAI ” seems to be a secular organization focussing only one way.

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