Badaun: In a major twist in the highly criticized Badaun rape case, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which has been probing the case for the past five months, has now concluded that the two teenaged cousins were not sexually assaulted and they had committed suicide. The central probe agency is expected to file a comprehensive report on the Badaun case and disclose its findings by November 28.
Yes, we have cracked the Badaun case. Our probe found that the two girls had committed suicide and weren’t murdered. The local police had erroneously conducted their probe along the lines that the sisters were killed,” CBI director Ranjit Sinha was quoted as saying by the media.
According to the FIR of the state police, the two Dalit cousins, aged 14 and 15 years, were allegedly gang-raped and murdered and their bodies were found hanging from a mango tree a day after they went missing on May 27 at Katra village in Badaun. The CBI, which took over the probe from the state police in June, found that the two were not sexually assaulted or killed either.
“The Medical Board has come to conclusion that sexual assault on either of the victims appears doubtful,” a senior CBI official had said. The CBI had taken help of the Hyderabad-based Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD) which ruled out sexual assault on the two girls.
The CBI insisted on the basis of its field investigation and polygraph or lie-detection tests that the main witness, Nazru, a distant relative of the cousins, gave fake details to frame key accused, Pappu Yadav, and four others. The officer said Pappu had met the girls around 9 pm on May 27 near Nazru’s residence on the outskirts of the village. The police used Nazru’s version to arrest Pappu and four others within hours after the girls’ bodies were found hanging from a tree.
Bureau Report
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