Prime accused in minor’s rape sent to police custody
26 April 2013 6:41 AM IST
A Delhi court on Thursday sent Manoj Sah, the prime accused in a five-year-old Delhi girl's rape-and-torture case, to five days' police custody to confront him with Pradeep, another accused in the case.
Additional sessions judge Sanjay Garg remanded Sah to police custody till 30 April. After the arrest of co-accused Pradeep, police had moved the court seeking Sah's remand to confront him with Pradeep to know the entire facts as well as to corroborate his version given to the investigators at the time of his arrest.
It also said Sah is needed to recover the mobile phones used by them and question him on new facts that might emerge during the probe.
Police said Sah has to be taken to his native place in Bihar's Muzzafarpur to recover the 'blood-stained clothes which he was wearing at the time of commission of crime'.
Sah's custody was also required for linking the evidence gathered so far and to find out the movement of the accused from the point of them leaving Delhi and reaching Bihar, they said.
With the permission of the court, police also took the handwriting sample of Sah to match it with the handwriting on a piece of paper recovered from Pradeep that allegedly
given to him by Sah with instruction to call him in two days when they left Delhi and parted ways at Chhapra.
Sah was arrested on 20 April from his in-laws' house in Muzaffarpur. He was produced before the court from judicial custody amid high security.
Police had on Tuesday told the court that both Sah and Pradeep had raped the minor. Both the accused have been booked under the provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012, which deals with cases of sexual offences where the victim is a child.
‘VICTIM’S RECOVERY AS EXPECTED’
The five-year-old Delhi rape victim is recovering, said doctors attending to the girl at AIIMS on Thursday. The victim is recovering from her wounds, the doctors said. The doctors emphasised that she is recovering as ‘expected’.
DK Sharma, medical superintendent of the hospital said, 'She is recovering as expected. She is active and taking adequate liquids and semi-solid food.' Her fever has come down and she has also been started on solid food, Sharma added.
Additional sessions judge Sanjay Garg remanded Sah to police custody till 30 April. After the arrest of co-accused Pradeep, police had moved the court seeking Sah's remand to confront him with Pradeep to know the entire facts as well as to corroborate his version given to the investigators at the time of his arrest.
It also said Sah is needed to recover the mobile phones used by them and question him on new facts that might emerge during the probe.
Police said Sah has to be taken to his native place in Bihar's Muzzafarpur to recover the 'blood-stained clothes which he was wearing at the time of commission of crime'.
Sah's custody was also required for linking the evidence gathered so far and to find out the movement of the accused from the point of them leaving Delhi and reaching Bihar, they said.
With the permission of the court, police also took the handwriting sample of Sah to match it with the handwriting on a piece of paper recovered from Pradeep that allegedly
given to him by Sah with instruction to call him in two days when they left Delhi and parted ways at Chhapra.
Sah was arrested on 20 April from his in-laws' house in Muzaffarpur. He was produced before the court from judicial custody amid high security.
Police had on Tuesday told the court that both Sah and Pradeep had raped the minor. Both the accused have been booked under the provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012, which deals with cases of sexual offences where the victim is a child.
‘VICTIM’S RECOVERY AS EXPECTED’
The five-year-old Delhi rape victim is recovering, said doctors attending to the girl at AIIMS on Thursday. The victim is recovering from her wounds, the doctors said. The doctors emphasised that she is recovering as ‘expected’.
DK Sharma, medical superintendent of the hospital said, 'She is recovering as expected. She is active and taking adequate liquids and semi-solid food.' Her fever has come down and she has also been started on solid food, Sharma added.
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