Gangrape case: Top cop asked to take action against investigation officer

Additional Sessions Judge Kaveri Baweja said the prosecution case was nothing but a “jumbled compilation of facts bits of evidence” which cannot be categorised as “credible” and acquitted the two men by giving them benefit of doubt in the gangrape case.

The judge freed Allahabad resident <g data-gr-id="31">Hawan</g> Pratap Singh and Bihar native Pintu Kumar saying, “I am constrained to hold that the prosecution has also failed to prove the alleged place of incident which, to my mind, is <g data-gr-id="30">extremely fatal</g> to the case of the prosecution.” 

“The facts brought on record during trial has falsified the very basis of the case of the prosecution inasmuch as the victim has denied that she even knows the contents of her complaint on the basis of which the FIR was registered.

“She has time and again stated before the court that she has been pressurised by the investigating officer (IO) / Inspector Meera Sharma at various stages of <g data-gr-id="27">investigation</g>,” the court said.

“Keeping in view the observation based on evidence brought on record during <g data-gr-id="24">trial</g>, I am constrained to direct the Commissioner of Police, Delhi to initiate an inquiry into the allegations made against Inspector Meera Sharma.

“The action taken be communicated to this court within two weeks from the date of receipt of this judgment. A copy of this judgment be sent to Commissioner of Police for necessary information and compliance,” the judge said.

According to the prosecution, the 16-year-old girl was gangraped by the two men, alleged to be railway officials, in a room in New Delhi Railway Station here in September 2012.