CBI takes over probe in rape and homicide case of 14-year-old scholar of Noida college

By PTI

NEW DELHI: The CBI has taken over the probe in a case of alleged rape and killing of a 14-year-old lady in a faculty in Noida’s Sorkha village, officers mentioned on Tuesday.

The case was handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) by the Supreme Court on a plea of the lady’s mother and father, who had alleged that their daughter’s physique was discovered hanging in a classroom of the Arya Kanya Gurukul Vaiddham in Sorkha village in Noida Sector 115, the place she used to check, on July 3, 2020.

The establishment is run by one Jayendra Acharya and his spouse.

The mother and father have alleged that Acharya had referred to as them to the gurukul with out informing them that their daughter had died.

They have additionally alleged that upon their arrival, Acharya and his spouse, with the assistance of unidentified goons, snatched their cellphones and different belongings to make sure that no footage have been taken and took them to the classroom the place their daughter was hanging.

Two separate FIRs have been registered by the Haryana police and the Noida police on July 9 and July 17, 2020 respectively, six and 14 days after the incident.

The mother and father of the sufferer approached the Punjab and Haryana High Court after no motion was taken by the police in Haryana, the place that they had lodged a case of abduction, and in Uttar Pradesh, the place that they had obtained an FIR registered for the alleged rape and killing of their daughter.

The mother and father mentioned the situation through which the physique was discovered confirmed that the sufferer was raped and killed.

According to the FIR, Acharya forcibly despatched the physique for cremation with out informing police and later, performed a “havan” within the classroom the place the physique was discovered to destroy all proof associated to the case such because the sufferer’s slippers and dupatta with which her physique was discovered hanging.

The mother and father of the sufferer alleged that they have been restrained in a classroom and compelled to signal clean papers, with out calling police or sending the physique for autopsy.

The members of the family of the sufferer have been packed in a car and despatched again to their village in Haryana with goons and directions to cease solely on the vacation spot, they alleged.

On the plea of the mother and father, a Supreme Court bench of justices Ajay Rastogi and CT Ravi Kumar, in April this yr, directed the Uttar Pradesh and Haryana governments at hand over the related case recordsdata and paperwork to the CBI inside 4 weeks.

“We have taken cognizance of the complaint made by the petitioner, who happens to be the mother of the deceased and who has lost her minor daughter of 14 years old at that point of time when the closure report was submitted by the investigating officer,” the bench had mentioned.

The prime court docket’s order got here on an enchantment filed by the sufferer’s mom towards the excessive court docket order refusing to switch the probe to the central company.

The lady’s mom had alleged that it was a heinous crime of rape and homicide, adopted by abduction of members of the family.

After the Supreme Court order, the CBI has re-registered the FIRs lodged by the Haryana police and the Noida police as its personal instances.