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  • Chhattisgarh: Teen held for abducting, raping, killing 8-year-old girl

    By PTI

    RAIPUR: A teen boy was held on Thursday for allegedly abducting, raping and murdering an 8-year-old girl in Raipur in Chhattisgarh, a police official said on Thursday.

    The girl had gone missing on December 7, after which a kidnapping case was registered at Vidhan Sabha police station, he said.

    Her body was found on a vacant plot in Saddu locality on December 13 and the post mortem report stated strangulation as the cause of death as well as the minor being sexually assaulted before the killing, said Raipur Senior Superintendent of Police Prashant Agrawal.

    “We have held a 14-year-old boy for abducting, raping and killing the girl. We had rounded him up for questioning based on leads from CCTV footage from the spot. During interrogation, he confessed to the crime,” the SSP said.

    He has been charged under Indian Penal Code sections 302 (murder), 363 (kidnapping), 376 (rape) and 201 (destruction of evidence) as well as relevant provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, the official said.

    RAIPUR: A teen boy was held on Thursday for allegedly abducting, raping and murdering an 8-year-old girl in Raipur in Chhattisgarh, a police official said on Thursday.

    The girl had gone missing on December 7, after which a kidnapping case was registered at Vidhan Sabha police station, he said.

    Her body was found on a vacant plot in Saddu locality on December 13 and the post mortem report stated strangulation as the cause of death as well as the minor being sexually assaulted before the killing, said Raipur Senior Superintendent of Police Prashant Agrawal.

    “We have held a 14-year-old boy for abducting, raping and killing the girl. We had rounded him up for questioning based on leads from CCTV footage from the spot. During interrogation, he confessed to the crime,” the SSP said.

    He has been charged under Indian Penal Code sections 302 (murder), 363 (kidnapping), 376 (rape) and 201 (destruction of evidence) as well as relevant provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, the official said.

  • Hathras conspiracy case: Supreme Court agrees to hear journalist Siddique Kappan’s plea seeking bail

    By Express News Service

    The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to list for Friday a petition by Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan seeking bail in the “Hathras Conspiracy case”.

    The petition where Kappan has challenged Allahabad HC’s order dated August 2, 2022 of rejecting him bail was mentioned before the bench of CJI NV Ramana, Justices Hima Kohli and CT Ravikumar.

    In October 2020, Kappan along with other accused were arrested by UP Police while they were proceeding to report the Hathras rape-murder crime. Initially, they were arrested under an apprehension to cause breach of peace but subsequently they were booked under Unlawful Activities Prevention Act alleging that in the wake of the Hathras gang rape they were trying to incite communal riots and disrupt social harmony in the backdrop of the Hathras gangrape-murder case.

    It was also alleged in the FIR that the accused(s) were financed to go to Hathras by terrorist Gand in furtherance of a plan to spread disharmony in society and that the co-accused (s) collected funding from foreign nationals/mediums which were utilised by Kappan for in different mediums and by cash for illegal activities. It was also alleged that Kappan and the co-accused received large quantities totalling Rs 45,000 deposited by PFI in their account.

    Assailing the HC’s order, Kappan in the plea has contended that the HC has mechanically dismissed his bail without affording any cogent reasons.

    It has also been argued that the HC has failed to take note of the fact that FIR/charge-sheet ex facie does not make case for invocation of sections 17 (punishment for raising funds for the terrorist act) and 18 (punishment for conspiracy) of UAPA.

    “Apart from a bald statement to the effect that a perusal of the charge sheet and documents adduced indicate that the offences have been committed, absolutely no reasons have been afforded to indicate as to how this conclusion has been arrived at,” plea states.

    The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to list for Friday a petition by Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan seeking bail in the “Hathras Conspiracy case”.

    The petition where Kappan has challenged Allahabad HC’s order dated August 2, 2022 of rejecting him bail was mentioned before the bench of CJI NV Ramana, Justices Hima Kohli and CT Ravikumar.

    In October 2020, Kappan along with other accused were arrested by UP Police while they were proceeding to report the Hathras rape-murder crime. Initially, they were arrested under an apprehension to cause breach of peace but subsequently they were booked under Unlawful Activities Prevention Act alleging that in the wake of the Hathras gang rape they were trying to incite communal riots and disrupt social harmony in the backdrop of the Hathras gangrape-murder case.

    It was also alleged in the FIR that the accused(s) were financed to go to Hathras by terrorist Gand in furtherance of a plan to spread disharmony in society and that the co-accused (s) collected funding from foreign nationals/mediums which were utilised by Kappan for in different mediums and by cash for illegal activities. It was also alleged that Kappan and the co-accused received large quantities totalling Rs 45,000 deposited by PFI in their account.

    Assailing the HC’s order, Kappan in the plea has contended that the HC has mechanically dismissed his bail without affording any cogent reasons.

    It has also been argued that the HC has failed to take note of the fact that FIR/charge-sheet ex facie does not make case for invocation of sections 17 (punishment for raising funds for the terrorist act) and 18 (punishment for conspiracy) of UAPA.

    “Apart from a bald statement to the effect that a perusal of the charge sheet and documents adduced indicate that the offences have been committed, absolutely no reasons have been afforded to indicate as to how this conclusion has been arrived at,” plea states.