Port Blair:
The Andaman and Nicobar Police on Wednesday introduced a reward of Rs 1 lakh for data resulting in the arrest of Labour Commissioner RL Rishi in reference to a gang rape case through which former Chief Secretary Jitendra Narain can also be an accused.
The identical declaration of Rs 1 lakh bounty was made by the police authorities additionally for a businessman recognized as Sandeep Singh alias Rinku.
Photographs and bodily particulars of the 2 lacking individuals – 46-year-old Rishi and Singh, 38, – have been shared by the police on Twitter.
“The name of the informant will be kept secret and shall be given a cash reward of Rs 1,00,000 for each accused,” the Andaman and Nicobar Police tweeted.
A Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the police was constituted to probe into allegations {that a} 21-year-old lady in Andaman and Nicobar Islands was lured to the chief secretary’s residence by promising a authorities job after which raped by Narain and Rishi.
The businessman was named within the FIR as an confederate within the crime.
The FIR was registered on October 1 when Narain was posted because the chairman and managing director of the Delhi Financial Corporation. The authorities suspended him on October 17 with speedy impact.
The SIT questioned Narain in reference to the case for 2 days.
A police inspector was additionally grilled by the SIT on this connection.
The lady stated as her father and stepmother didn’t handle her monetary wants, she required a job and was launched by some individuals to the labour commissioner as he was near the then chief secretary.
She claimed within the FIR that the chief secretary appointed “7,800 candidates” in varied departments within the administration of the islands “on the basis of recommendation only” and with none “formal interview”.
The lady alleged that she was lured to the chief secretary’s residence with the promise of a authorities job, after which raped there on April 14 and May 1.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV employees and is printed from a syndicated feed.)
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