2 hours ago
1
BJP workers protestation extracurricular the location of authorities Women & Child Development Minister Shashi Panja, successful Kolkata connected Sunday. (Express Photo by Partha Paul)
Ordering a 2nd post-mortem of the nine-year-old schoolgirl allegedly raped and killed successful West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, the Calcutta High Court connected Sunday pulled up the constabulary for not adding POCSO charges successful the FIR.
The miss was recovered dormant connected Saturday morning, a time aft she did not instrumentality location from coaching class.
The execution triggered convulsive protests successful the country with villagers mounting a constabulary outpost connected fire. Police, which registered a execution and kidnapping case, person arrested 1 idiosyncratic successful transportation with the girl’s death.
Taking up the plea of the girl’s parents seeking a 2nd autopsy astatine a specially convened proceeding connected Sunday, Justice Tirthankar Ghosh of the Calcutta High Court expressed “high dissatisfaction” implicit the constabulary not adding charges nether the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
Citing the Executive Magistrate’s report, which hinted astatine the necessity of including the POCSO charges, Justice Ghosh asked wherefore the constabulary did not record a lawsuit nether the POCSO Act contempt the information that the miss was little than 10 years old.
The High Court tribunal directed the constabulary to “immediately adhd the POCSO sections” and transportation the records to the Special POCSO court.
Additionally, the arrested accused would present beryllium produced earlier the POCSO tribunal alternatively of the CJM court.
Accepting the parents’ plea seeking an autopsy astatine a cardinal infirmary successful the beingness of a judicial magistrate, Justice Ghosh ordered that the 2nd post-mortem should beryllium conducted astatine AIIMS Hospital successful Kalyani connected Monday successful the beingness of the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (ACJM) of Baruipur court.“Only parents tin ticker the autopsy video if they privation to. They tin enactment extracurricular the autopsy room,” the tribunal ordered.
If AIIMS Kalyani lacks the indispensable infrastructure to behaviour the post-mortem, it should beryllium carried retired astatine Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Hospital, besides located successful Kalyani, the High Court ordered. However, the post-mortem indispensable beryllium done by doctors from Kalyani AIIMS, not those from the state-run hospital, it added.
—With PTI Inputs
.png "indianexpress.")
.png "khaleejtimes")
.png "arabnews")
.png "gulfnews"){kind=logo}
English (US) · 
Hindi (IN) ·