Sunday, January 30, 2011

[ZESTCaste] 2nd postmortem confirms rape, murder of Dalit girl

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/2nd-postmortem-confirms-rape-murder-of-dalit-girl/743052/

2nd postmortem confirms rape, murder of Dalit girl

Express News Service Posted online: Fri Jan 28 2011, 02:51 hrs
Lucknow : * Four youths held; doctor responsible for first postmortem
suspended, to be booked

A second postmortem has confirmed that the teenage Dalit girl, who was
found dead in a field under Chinhat police station area on Tuesday,
had been raped and strangulated. Four youths were arrested for the
crime on Thursday.

A postmortem conducted on Wednesday had ruled out rape and
strangulation but the second postmortem on Thursday confirmed both.

Dr RK Saxena, who had conducted the first postmortem, has been
suspended and an FIR has been ordered against him for concealing
facts, said Special DG (Law & Order), Brij Lal. On basis of the fresh
report, IPC Sections of rape and the SC/ST Act was added in the murder
case lodged on Tuesday.

According to police, Arti (17), had gone to a sewing training centre
in Chinhat on Tuesday afternoon. When she failed to return till late
evening, her family launched a search and found her body in a field
outside the village. She appeared to have been strangled with her
scarf and shawl. Doctors at Gomti Nagar's Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital
declared her dead and a case of murder was registered that night.
While sending the body for postmortem, the police had mentioned
ligature marks on the neck and bruises on the back.

But the postmortem conducted by Saxena ignored the references and said
the cause of death could not ascertained and the viscera was preserved
for laboratory test. The report failed to mention the bruises on the
body and said she was not raped.

Following contradictions, the body was exhumed and the second
postmortem was conducted. The second report confirmed she was raped
and strangled and mentioned there were eight bruises on the body.

In the FIR, girl's father Ram Chandra had mentioned Arjun Yadav, Ashok
Yadav and their aides as suspects. On Thursday, police arrested Arjun,
Ashok, Santosh Pasi and Rajkumar — all from same locality.

The accused told police that they were frequent visitors to the
deceased's house. On Tuesday, Arjun and Rajkumar dragged Arti to a
secluded field and raped her when she was returning from the sewing
training centre. Santosh and Ashok also were there and they too, had
raped the girl. Later, Rajkumar and Arjun strangulated her with her
scarf and escaped.

The National Commission for Scheduled Castes, meanwhile, has sought a report .


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