Delhi HC seeks status report from police on probe into rape, murder of minor girl
The Hindu
Court declines to pass direction for SIT to probe case
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday sought a status report from the Delhi Police on its investigation into the of a inside a crematorium in Delhi Cantonment earlier in August. Justice Yogesh Khanna, who was hearing a plea by the parents of the victim, however, declined to pass, at this stage, any direction for a court-monitored Special Investigation Team (SIT) investigation into the case as an SIT had already been constituted by the Delhi Police Crime Branch. The court also took on record statements made by the Delhi government’s standing counsel Sanjay Lao that Section 302 (murder), Section 376 (rape), Section 3 (punishments for offences of atrocities) of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, and Section 6 (sexual assault) Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act had been added in the FIR.
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