Bhushan Kumar's attempts show his thirst to get rid of rape case: Mumbai court

A Mumbai court has dismissed a closure report in a rape case against producer Bhushan Kumar and asked the Mumbai Police to further investigate it.

A Mumbai magistrate’s court has said that producer Bhushan Kumar, who was accused in a rape case, attempted to contest the matter, which is unfortunate, unethical and unjustified. “His attempts show his hunger and thirst to get rid of the matter at the earliest,” the court said while ordering the Mumbai police to investigate the case further.

The court was looking into a B Summary report filed by Mumbai Police. A B Summary Report is submitted by police when the police classify the case as maliciously false or when there is no evidence or prima facie case against the accused after investigation. The Magistrate must sift through the details of the case and decide to accept the closure or can ask the police to investigate further. In this case, the Magistrate court refused to accept the B Summary report and asked for the investigation to be carried on further.\

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The case that Mumbai Police's DN Nagar police station was investigating against Kumar, the owner of T-Series, involved sections of rape, cheating, and criminal intimidation.

Observing the conduct of the complainant, the Magistrate said, "She has set the criminal law into motion and she has no grievances in accepting the final report. Her conduct furnishes an assurance that she has misused the provisions of law meant for needy litigants. For her personal gain and advantage, she has crossed every limit that all women have been following for decades."

"From the perusal of the final report, it is apparent that after registration of the FIR, the investigating officers, Police Inspector Anil Mule and Assistant Police Inspector Hasina Shikalkar of DN Nagar Police Station have infringed upon the established directions of law as well as advisories issued by the government by not recording the statement of the victim under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code before a magistrate for reasons best known to them. They have also breached the directions issued by the Supreme Court, by virtue of which it was incumbent on the police to record the statement of the victim before a magistrate."

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