 Early Times Report
Kathua, Apr 9: Harpreet Sethi Kathua High voltage drama was witnessed outside CJM Court in Kathua when Lawyers prevented Crime Branch officials from filing chargesheet into gang rape and murder of 8 year old nomad girl of Rasana village of Hiranagar Asifa Bano.
At 4:30pm crime Branch officials rushed to CJM court Kathua on Monday to produce 7 accused where the Members of Bar association Kathua staged a protest against Crime Branch and did not allow the crime Branch officials to enter in court room.
Meanwhile Kathua police reinforcement rushed to facilitate the entry of CB officials into the court.
After one hour again, the crime Branch officials produced the chargesheet .
Seven accused persons against whom charge sheet has been produced under sections 302, 376, 201, 120-B RPC are Sanji Ram, 60, the mastermind behind the crime, special police officers (SPO) Deepak Khajuria and Surender Verma, Head Constable Tilak Raj and civilian Parvesh Kumar, Sub-inspector, Anand Dutta and son of Sanji, Vishal.
The charge sheet has been filed few day Rassana rape and murder case
Official sources told that the crime branch, probing the rape-and-murder, had found hair strands from Devistan temple in Hiranagar after one of the accused revealed during interrogation that Asifa was held captive inside the temple.
The crime site was searched and the hair strands were found and sent to Forensic Laboratory (FSL) New Delhi. The report confirmed that they were that of Asifa.
Despite failing to file the charge sheet, the Crime Branch sleuths in the evening attended a dinner party hosted by a top police official of the district, sources said.
"All the members of the Bar have strongly agitated against the presentation of challan (charge sheet) by the crime branch in the Rassana case… the agitation of the bar proved successful and the crime branch was compelled to go back and the challan could not be presented in the court of chief judicial magistrate Kathua," president of Kathua Bar Association, Kirty Bhushan Mahajan, said in a statement. | 