Chargesheet filed in Rohtak sisters’ case
The hearing in the case will begin from August 26 in the district court.
The girls’ lawyer, Panwar, alleged a larger “conspiracy” in the witnesses denying the molestation. (PTI photo)
A police Special Investigation Team has filed a 200-page chargesheet in the case lodged by Rohtak sisters Pooja (19) and Aarti (22), who had accused three boys of molesting them on a Haryana Roadways bus on November 28, 2014.
The police have filed the chargesheet after examining 50 witnesses and has included the findings of the polygraph test of the sisters, which was ordered by the court on December 15 last year.
Sources said the chargesheet mentions that in the polygraph test, 60 responses by the sisters were wrong. Most of the witnesses have reportedly also testified that there was no molestation and the fight in the bus was over a seat. Among them is the woman who had made a video of the alleged incident, and who had gone underground after the incident.
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The hearing in the case will begin from August 26 in the district court.
The Crime Branch in Gurgaon had earlier verified the investigation of the Rohtak police and given its nod for filing of a chargesheet. Rohtak SP Shashank Anand and IGP Shrikant Jadhav remained unavailable for comment.
“Instead of conducting a probe against the accused, the cops have investigated the complainant. This is absolute injustice,” Attar Singh Panwar, the counsel for the sisters, said. Shripal Hooda, the father of accused Deepak, said they had been vindicated. “The sisters tried to ruin the future of my son. Let the case go to court, we will also file a defamation case against the girls now,” he said.
Sandeep Rathi, who is representing Deepak as well as Kuldeep Singh and Mohit, said the FIR should have been quashed outright. “On one hand we feel that the boys have been given a clean chit, but then they have sought a trial. What is the point?”
The girls’ lawyer, Panwar, alleged a larger “conspiracy” in the witnesses denying the molestation. “The investigators did not include the testimonies of our witnesses, there is some political or social pressure on them,” he said.
Questioning the inclusion of polygraph findings, he added, “The sisters were asked such baseless questions, how can they admit such responses?”
The video of the sisters thrashing three boys who had allegedly molested them had gone viral last year. They were hailed as “bravehearts”, though discrepancies had later emerged in their version of the assault.
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