further probe ordered into plea against unnao rape victim, kin
New Delhi, April 30 -- A Delhi court has ordered further investigation against the 2017 Unnao rape victim and her family over allegations made by the kin of an accused in the case involving former BJP leader Kuldeep Singh Sengar, accusing them of forging the victim's identity documents to wrongly implicate the accused.
The order was passed by Judicial Magistrate First Class Bhavaya Karhail of Saket courts on Tuesday, who noted "multiple lacunas" and a "lack of crucial witness examination" in the police's chargesheet.
The order came on an application moved by additional public prosecutor Akashmani Tripathi, who told the court that the investigation and the chargesheet filed were insufficient to initiate trial against the victim and her family due to multiple material loopholes and the failure to record statements of crucial witnesses.
In 2018, the husband of Shashi Singh-who was acquitted in 2019-filed a case of criminal conspiracy, cheating and forgery against the victim, her mother and her uncle at Makhi police station in Unnao. He claimed in the FIR that they had provided a forged school transfer certificate to the Unnao police to verify her age while filing the complaint against Sengar and Singh.
Singh, who had allegedly taken the victim to Sengar's home on the promise of a job, was arrested in 2018. While Sengar was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for raping the minor in 2017, Singh was acquitted by the trial court in December 2019. The chargesheet was filed in June 2019.
The judge, in his order, noted that despite sufficient evidence being available, the investigating officer (IO) chose not to include it in the chargesheet. He also observed that several crucial witnesses were not examined and no expert opinion was sought regarding the genuineness or fabrication of the documents in question....
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