GURUGRAM: Five months after he used to be paraded through the police because the murderer of a seven-year-old pupil in a CBSE school in Gurugram, Ashok Kumar used to be on Wednesday acquitted of all charges through a neighborhood court.
The CBI had earlier given a blank chit to Ashok, who used to be arrested because the prime accused through Gurugram police inside a few hours of the September 8 homicide. Kumar used to be additionally booked beneath Section 302 (homicide) of the IPC, and beneath sections of the Arms Act and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. Ashok used to be granted bail on November 21 after the CBI took over the probe and detained a Class XI pupil of the same school for the homicide.
Two officers of the college — Francis Thomas and Jayesh Thomas, booked beneath the Juvenile Justice Act for negligence but recently out on bail — had been directed to seem before the court on April 10.
Additional sessions judge J S Kundu, while discharging Ashok of all charges, seen CBI had now not discovered any proof towards him. “No proof has come on record to confirm the involvement of conductor Ashok Kumar in committing the homicide of the child. No strains of sexual assault had been discovered. No blood stain used to be discovered on his clothes both. Ashok’s presence inside the washroom has been explained and found to be justified and true, according to impartial versions of a number of witnesses and minute analysis of CCTV footage,” learn CBI’s preliminary chargesheet, filed on February 5.
The boy used to be discovered along with his throat slit simply outdoor the washroom on September 8. The police theory used to be that Ashok had attempted to sexually assault the boy in the washroom and attacked him when he resisted. Ashok’s recommend Mohit Verma said he will now document a case towards Gurugram police for repayment. “Ashok used to be falsely implicated through police and subjected to mental and physical torture in custody,” said Verma.
“The court has directed CBI to speed up the probe and document a final chargesheet through April 10,” said advocate Sushil Tekriwal, who's representing the murdered boy’s father. “CBI had filed a partial chargesheet towards the juvenile accused on February 5. In it, CBI has named simplest the juvenile as accused of the homicide. The chargesheet, which runs into 1,500-odd pages, elaborates the position of the juvenile in the crime, and explains why Ashok used to be given a blank chit. Though it tore into the police probe, it hasn’t pointed at any police official as accused, and is completely silent on the position of school officers.”
Tekriwal said the court has additionally directed that the 2 FIRs— one filed through Gurugram police, the other through CBI — be merged. “Two FIRs had been merged through the court to keep away from multiplicity of litigations,” said Tekriwal, including the court has directed additional complaints in the case to be conducted simplest on the basis of CBI’s FIR, filed on September 24.
“The conspiracy and felony intent to torment and incriminate the innocent conductor in the homicide stands exposed. So is the meticulous making plans to ship the innocent to the gallows through cops of the SIT,” said Tekriwal, including that police brutality and misconduct had turn into a pattern, and that the to blame will have to now not cross unpunished.
The court fixed March 10 for the general hearing of the enchantment filed through the juvenile challenging the order to regard him as an adult.
The CBI had earlier given a blank chit to Ashok, who used to be arrested because the prime accused through Gurugram police inside a few hours of the September 8 homicide. Kumar used to be additionally booked beneath Section 302 (homicide) of the IPC, and beneath sections of the Arms Act and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. Ashok used to be granted bail on November 21 after the CBI took over the probe and detained a Class XI pupil of the same school for the homicide.
Two officers of the college — Francis Thomas and Jayesh Thomas, booked beneath the Juvenile Justice Act for negligence but recently out on bail — had been directed to seem before the court on April 10.
Additional sessions judge J S Kundu, while discharging Ashok of all charges, seen CBI had now not discovered any proof towards him. “No proof has come on record to confirm the involvement of conductor Ashok Kumar in committing the homicide of the child. No strains of sexual assault had been discovered. No blood stain used to be discovered on his clothes both. Ashok’s presence inside the washroom has been explained and found to be justified and true, according to impartial versions of a number of witnesses and minute analysis of CCTV footage,” learn CBI’s preliminary chargesheet, filed on February 5.
The boy used to be discovered along with his throat slit simply outdoor the washroom on September 8. The police theory used to be that Ashok had attempted to sexually assault the boy in the washroom and attacked him when he resisted. Ashok’s recommend Mohit Verma said he will now document a case towards Gurugram police for repayment. “Ashok used to be falsely implicated through police and subjected to mental and physical torture in custody,” said Verma.
“The court has directed CBI to speed up the probe and document a final chargesheet through April 10,” said advocate Sushil Tekriwal, who's representing the murdered boy’s father. “CBI had filed a partial chargesheet towards the juvenile accused on February 5. In it, CBI has named simplest the juvenile as accused of the homicide. The chargesheet, which runs into 1,500-odd pages, elaborates the position of the juvenile in the crime, and explains why Ashok used to be given a blank chit. Though it tore into the police probe, it hasn’t pointed at any police official as accused, and is completely silent on the position of school officers.”
Tekriwal said the court has additionally directed that the 2 FIRs— one filed through Gurugram police, the other through CBI — be merged. “Two FIRs had been merged through the court to keep away from multiplicity of litigations,” said Tekriwal, including the court has directed additional complaints in the case to be conducted simplest on the basis of CBI’s FIR, filed on September 24.
“The conspiracy and felony intent to torment and incriminate the innocent conductor in the homicide stands exposed. So is the meticulous making plans to ship the innocent to the gallows through cops of the SIT,” said Tekriwal, including that police brutality and misconduct had turn into a pattern, and that the to blame will have to now not cross unpunished.
The court fixed March 10 for the general hearing of the enchantment filed through the juvenile challenging the order to regard him as an adult.
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