Special court likely to pronounce verdict in 2019 Alwar gang rape case today

A particular court docket for SC/ST circumstances is prone to pronounce the judgment within the Thanagazi gang rape case in Rajasthan’s Alwar on Tuesday.

A 19-year-old Dalit lady was gang raped by 5 males in entrance of her husband on April 26, 2019, in Thanagazi in Alwar. The Rajasthan authorities drew criticism from Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bahuajan Samaj Party chief Mayawati throughout the Lok Sabha election marketing campaign for the delay in lodging an FIR within the case and never taking motion till the purported video of the sexual assault started circulating on social media.

According to the FIR lodged on May 2, 2019, 4 males and a juvenile took turns to rape the girl close to Duhar Chaugan between Thanagazi and Talvrikash for 3 hours after beating her husband whereas one other man filmed the assault. The accused demanded Rs 10,000 from the sufferer for not placing the video of the gang rape on social media. The FIR was registered on the day the video of the ghastly crime went viral on social media.

Police filed the cost sheet towards the accused on May 18, 2019, 16 days after the FIR. Chhote Lal (22), Hansraj Gurjar (20), Ashok Kumar Gurjar (20) and Indraj Singh Gurjar (22) have been charged underneath sections 147 (rioting), 149 (illegal meeting), 323 (voluntarily inflicting damage), 327 (Voluntarily inflicting damage to extort property, or to constrain to an unlawful act), 341 (wrongful restraint), 342 (wrongful confinement), 354B (outraging the modesty of a lady), 365 (Kidnapping or abducting with intent secretly and wrongfully to restrict particular person), 376D (gang rape), 384 (extortion), 395 (dacoity) and 506 (legal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code.

Police additionally invoked totally different sections of the SC/ST Act and the IT Act within the FIR.

The fifth accused Mukesh Gurjar, 28, was charged underneath totally different sections of the IT Act for circulating the video.

The prosecution produced 32 witnesses. The trial of the minor is at the moment on within the district and periods court docket.

The state authorities eliminated the then superintendent of police Rajeev Pachar and suspended the Thanagazi SHO Sardar Singh for alleged laxity. On June 7 final 12 months, the Rajasthan authorities ordered FIR towards the SHO underneath part 166A(C) of the IPC, which covers a public servant failing to file any data given to him in relation to cognizable offence. Circle officer Jagmohan Sharma was transferred out of the district after the cost sheet was filed. Other employees of the police station was despatched out of Jaipur police vary.

HT has earlier reported the findings of an administrative inquiry into the case wherein Pachar was discovered responsible of negligence as he didn’t go to the spot inside 24 hours of the incident. A police inquiry previous to this had given him a clear chit. The state authorities ordered an administrative inquiry by Jaipur divisional commissioner KC Verma on May 9, 2019 to repair accountability of cops within the case.