New Delhi, Sept. 18 -- The Delhi High Court has directed the framing of an additional charge under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act against one of the accused in a 2016 case involving the alleged gang rape of a school-going minor, holding that prima facie material showed he was aware of the girl's caste identity.

Justice Saurabh Banerjee, in a judgment pronounced on September 17, modified the 2017 trial court order to the limited extent of directing that an additional charge under Section 3(1)(w) of the SC/ST Act be framed against the accused. The remaining part of the trial court order was left undisturbed.

The court was dealing with a revision petition filed by the victim challenging an earlier ...