SIT to analyze gang-rape cost in opposition to senior officers in Andaman and Nicobar

A case has been registered on the Aberdeen police station within the Andamans. Photo: Twitter/@AndamanPolice

A Special Investigation Team has been constituted to probe allegation of a 21-year-old girl in Andaman and Nicobar Islands that she was gang-raped by officers there together with a former Chief Secretary.

The police registered a case earlier this month on the criticism filed by the girl alleging that she was sexually abused by Jitendra Narain, a 1990 batch IAS officer, and Labour Commissioner R.L. Rishi on the latter’s official residence on two events.

The Aberdeen police station registered the case and a Special Investigation Team headed by a Senior Superintendent of Police was shaped to probe the intense allegation in opposition to Mr. Narain, who’s at current posted because the chairman and managing director of the Delhi Financial Corporation.

When contacted, Mr. Narain informed PTI that he can’t touch upon the difficulty because the matter is sub judice.

The girl lodged the criticism with the police on August 21 during which she gave an in depth account of the alleged sexual assault on her twice — in April and May — and requested for preserving the CCTV footage of the then chief secretary’s residence for proof.

She has additionally requested a Test Identification Parade of the workers current on the residence of the official.

The complainant has additionally recorded her assertion beneath part 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) earlier than the chief metropolitan Justice of the Peace detailing the allegation.

Anyone giving a press release beneath this clause of the CrPC will face perjury costs in case it seems to be false.

The girl claimed that she was seeking a job and was launched to Mr. Rishi via a resort proprietor who allegedly took her to the residence of Mr. Narain.

At Mr. Narain’s residence, the girl claimed, she was provided liquor which she refused. She claimed that they assured her of a authorities job however, subsequently, she was brutally sexually abused by the 2 males.

Two weeks later, the girl alleged, she was referred to as to the Chief Secretary’s residence once more and the assault was repeated.

She mentioned that as an alternative of giving the promised authorities job, she was threatened with dire penalties if she revealed the matter to anybody.

She has additionally filed a separate criticism with the police in opposition to a neighborhood journalist, who allegedly gave hints about her id, and a police officer for leaking details about the case, officers mentioned.

According to sources near Mr. Narain, he joined as Chief Secretary of Andaman and Nicobar Island in March 2021.