Charges against accused July 11
A city court on Saturday fixed July 11 for giving its order on whether to frame charges against the two persons arrested for allegedly raping a five-year-old child in Gandhi Nagar area of East Delhi.
Additional sessions judge Sanjay Garg, who is presiding over the special court under the POCSO Act, will pass order in the case in which accused Manoj Shah, 22, and Pradeep Kumar, 20, were arrested for their alleged involvement in the crime.
The court also took on record a report filed by the jail authorities in pursuance to its order to make appropriate arrangements for “safety and security” of accused Pradeep, who is lodged in Tihar Jail and had complained of being beaten up by undertrials in the prison van.
The jail authorities said in the report that from now onwards, Pradeep would be brought to the court in a separate vehicle from jail and would be kept separately in the lock up also. A report was sought from the jail superintendent and lock up in-charge after Pradeep had complained to the judge that he was often beaten by other undertrials when he, along with co-accused Manoj Shah, was brought to the court from the prison in the jail van.
Manoj and Pradeep are accused of brutally raping a five-year-old girl on April 15 in a building in east Delhi’s Gandhi Nagar locality where the victim and accused lived.
The Delhi police had on May 24 filed a chargesheet against the duo under provisions of the POCSO Act relating to aggravated sexual assault and for offences including procuring a minor girl, kidnapping, wrongful confinement, attempt to murder and destruction of evidence under the IPC.
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