The Allahabad excessive court docket on Tuesday directed the magistrate involved to go to the girl police constable, who was found brutally assaulted in Saryu Categorical practice on August 30, in the trauma centre of KGMC, Lucknow, the place she is beneath therapy and document her statement and submit the report by the following date of listening to on September 13, 2023.
The court docket additionally directed that the sufferer be examined by a group of 5 docs comprising three senior gynaecologists, one surgeon and one of drugs of the KGMU, Lucknow, and a report be submitted by the following date mounted in the matter. “The structure of the Workforce of Docs shall be finished by the dean of the KGMU, Lucknow,” the court docket stated.
Listening to a PIL, a division bench comprising Chief Justice Pritinker Diwaker and Justice Ashutosh Srivastava stated, “After listening to concerning the progress of the investigations so removed from the superintendent of police, GRP, Railway, at this stage, we have now little doubt that the investigation is continuing in the suitable monitor and would deliver outcomes quick. Nonetheless, we discover that the statement of the sufferer beneath Part 161 or 164 prison process code (CrPC) has not been recorded to date. In our opinion, it’s a important piece of proof which is able to throw some mild and carve out the trail on which the investigation can proceed therefore forth. We really feel that the statement has not been recorded because the sufferer just isn’t in a place to current herself earlier than the magistrate involved.”
The court docket additionally directed the railway authorities to present all mandatory help, together with motorised inspection trolleys, to the investigation group to perform combing operations alongside the railway monitor to find the weapon and different proof.
Earlier, in a Sunday night time sitting on September 3, 2023, this court docket had taken suo moto cognizance of the brutal assault on a girl police constable who was on responsibility inside Saryu Categorical in the intervening night time of August 30/31, 2023 by some unknown assailants and had requested the involved officers to seem earlier than the court docket. The court docket had determined to deal with this matter as public curiosity litigation (PIL).
Later, as per course of the court docket, one Puja Yadav, superintendent of police (SP), GRP, Lucknow together with deputy superintendent of police, railway, had submitted earlier than the court docket that statement of sufferer beneath part 164 prison process code (CrPC) couldn’t be recorded as a result of she was not in place to give her statement.
She additionally instructed the court docket that no proof until now had come exhibiting involvement of accused individuals. Moreover, she additionally instructed that no signal of rape has been found until now. The one accidents are on head and on face.