The CBI on Friday took over investigation into the Bulandshahr gangrape and dacoity case in which a woman and her minor daughter were assaulted by a gang on the intervening night of July 29/30.
A CBI team, including forensic experts has reached the spot to make a first hand assessment of the crime scene, official sources said, adding the materials gathered so far by the local police are being analysed in order to decide further course of investigation into the incident.
The shocking incident had taken place when six members of a Noida-based family were travelling to Shahjahanpur in western Uttar Pradesh to attend a family ritual. At the National Highway passing through Bulandshahr, their car was stopped by criminals who dragged the 13-year-old girl and her mother out and took turns to rape them in a field nearby.
The victims and their family members later tried to dial 100 but police did not arrive on the crime scene.
The Allahabad High Court had ordered CBI to take over investigation in the case in response to a criminal writ Public Interest litigation (PIl).
The agency has registered a case under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections related to dacoity, gangrape, kidnapping among others besides provisions of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, a CBI spokesperson said.
“CBI took over the investigation of case No.838 of 2016 registered at Police Station Kotwali Dehat, District Bulandshahr (Uttar Pradesh) on the allegations of abduction, dacoity and rape of a lady and her daughter by five-six assailants in fields situated in village Dostpur, district Bulandshahr in the intervening night of 29/30 July 2016,” the spokesperson added.