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The HC besides cancelled the bail of the accused, and directed Kolkata Police Commissioner to instrumentality disciplinary enactment against 3 constabulary officers for “failing to travel procedural norms and tampering with the complaint”. (File Photo)
Pulling up the ongoing probe into the alleged rape of a civilian servant’s wife, the Calcutta High Court connected Friday transferred the probe to a lawman commissioner-level serviceman of Kolkata Police.
The HC besides cancelled the bail of the accused, and directed Kolkata Police Commissioner to instrumentality disciplinary enactment against 3 constabulary officers for “failing to travel procedural norms and tampering with the complaint”. The civilian servant’s woman had alleged that she was raped doubly connected the nighttime of July 14 astatine her residence betwixt 11.30 p.m. and 6.30 am.
The adjacent day, she got an FIR registered but “was subjected to coercion and intimidation by the lad and woman of the accused, who were allegedly brought to the constabulary presumption by the officers to unit her into withdrawing her complaint”.
She besides alleged that contempt being raped twice, constabulary booked the accused connected charges of outraging modesty that allowed him to get bail the adjacent time of his arrest.
Ordering the transportation of the probe, Justice Rajarshi Bharadwaj of Calcutta High Court, observed: “Despite gravity of offences, the lawsuit was registered nether little terrible sections.”
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