Minor's Rape: Court Denies Bail To Suspended Delhi Government Official's Wife
NDTV
A police source had said that suspended Delhi government official Premoday Khakha kept on raping the minor daughter of his friend for months, during which his wife also allegedly assisted him.
The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to grant default bail to the wife of suspended Delhi government official Premoday Khakha in a case of alleged sexual assault of a minor girl.
Mr Khakha, who served as Deputy Director in the Women and Child Development Department, is accused of raping a 16-year-old girl multiple times between 2020 and 2021, and his wife, Seema Rani, reportedly gave the minor survivor medicine to terminate her pregnancy.
A bench of Justices C.T. Ravi Kumar and S.V.N. Bhatti refused to interfere with the February 26 decision of the Delhi High Court rejecting the bail pleas filed by the Mr Khakha couple. Earlier, the trial court had denied the plea for statutory bail, rejecting the contention that the charge sheet filed was based on an incomplete investigation. Both Mr Khakha and his wife remain under judicial custody.
