Badaun sisters’ case: Court rejects CBI closure report

In a jolt to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the case relating to the alleged gangrape and murder of two cousins in Katra Saadatganj last year in Uttar Pradesh, a local court on Wednesday rejected the closure report by the agency, which held that they were neither sexually assaulted nor killed but committed suicide and summoned the main accused.

Additional District Judge Virendra Kumar Pandey, in the 25-page verdict, rejected the closure report filed by CBI after arguments by both the sides during the past few dates in the case, petitioner’s counsel Kokab Hasan Naqvi said.

Earlier, the families of the deceased girls, who were first cousins, had contested CBI’s claim that the two had committed suicide and maintained that the girls were raped and hanged.