Accused still untraceable, victim says cops misleading them

Nearly three months after a 17-year-old schoolgirl was raped on the premises of a Haryana government office in Sector 4, the police are groping in the dark to identify one of the main accused — Chhavi.

Nearly three months after a 17-year-old schoolgirl was raped on the premises of a Haryana government office in Sector 4, the police are groping in the dark to identify one of the main accused — Chhavi.

The victim blamed the present situation on the “slow investigations” done by the police. “Despite my statements and the mention of her name in the FIR, the police have failed to identify Chhavi.

Nobody from the headquarters has even contacted us for the past many days regarding the case,” the victim told Newsline.

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The role of the police is also under the scanner as the victim’s family claims that it was on the police’s directions that they did not move the High Court to seek cancellation of the bail of another accused.

“Though we were planning to file an application in the High Court, seeking cancellation of Aman Ahuja’s bail, we did not do so after the Panchkula police told us that they had already asked the public prosecutor to move an

application to this effect,” the victim said.

The public prosecutor, however, denied receiving any such request from the police.

“Ever since the anticipatory bail application of another accused Kushal Kushik and the owner of the Maruti Swift car (in which the victim was allegedly raped) was cancelled, I have not been contacted by the police even once regarding this particular case.”

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While Investigating Officer Surjit could not be contacted despite repeated attempts, Panchkula Superintendent of Police Sandeep Khirwar told Newsline: “We are at the final stages of investigations.” He added that since the FIR was registered on September 18, the chargesheet would be filed only after December 18.

Command Hospital rape: No ‘Raj’ involved, say police
The police claimed on Wednesday nobody called ‘Raj’ was involved in the rape of a 39-year-old woman inside the Command Hospital in Chandimandir last week. The police have, meanwhile, recovered the two mobile phones used by the two accused, who are in police custody at present, to threaten the victim. In her complaint, the victim had said one of the accused, Naik Hottam Singh, had told her that the entire episode had been shot on camera by ‘Raj’ and if she complained to the police, they would make the video public.