New Delhi, (the states. news)
The Central
Bureau of Investigation on Saturday took over the probe of the alleged rape and
murder of a girl in Hathras district of Uttar Pradesh, after the Department of
Personnel and Training (DoPT) gave its nod for the same.
According to the probe agency officials, the Ghaziabad unit of CBI will
investigate the case and it has re- registered cases on the basis of the FIRs
registered by the Uttar Pradesh police.
The agency will also probe related FIRs of sedition, disrupting law and order
and conspiracy that UP police had registered after violent protests, which had
erupted in Hathras after this incident.
Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath had, on
October 3, made a recommendation for CBI probe into this case.
On September 14, a 19-year-old Dalit woman was allegedly raped at a village in
Hathras by four men and also brutally beaten by the alleged assailants. She was
admitted to a Hospital in Aligarh, but when her condition deteriorated, she was
rushed to the Safdarjung hospital in Delhi, where she succumbed to her
injuries.
The woman was cremated in the early hours of September 29, allegedly without
the consent and presence of her family members.
On October 6, the state government had urged the Supreme Court to direct a CBI
probe in the case, while responding to a PIL file in the apex court.
The state government also constituted a Special Investigation Team to
investigate this incident and to furnish report within the stipulated time and
sought report on mishandling of the case by the local administration.
The UP administration had also suspended the Hathras Superintendent of Police,
the Deputy Superintendent of Police, and the Police station In-Charge
Inspector, over the allegations of mismanagement of the incident. (uni)(mediasaheb.com)
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) takes over Hathras rape case probe
