The CBI has taken over the probe into two separate cases of alleged rape and killing of a 14-year-old girl in a school in Noida's Sorkha village, and another FIR relating to her abduction.
The case was handed over to the CBI by the Supreme Court on a plea of the girl's parents, who had alleged that their daughter's body was found hanging in a classroom of the Arya Kanya Gurukul Vaiddham in Sorkha village in Noida Sector 115, where she used to study, on July 3, 2020.
The institution is run by one Jayendra Acharya and his wife.The parents have alleged that Acharya had called them to the Gurukul without informing them that their daughter had died. The parents further alleged that upon their arrival in Gurukul, Acharya and his wife, with the help of unidentified goons, snatched their mobile phones and other belongings to ensure that no pictures were taken and took them to the classroom where their daughter was hanging.
Two separate FIRs were registered by the Noida police and the Haryana police on July 17 and September 9, 2020 respectively, 14 and 68 days after the incident. The parents of the victim approached the Punjab and Haryana High Court after no action was taken by the police in Haryana, where they had lodged a case of abduction, and in Uttar Pradesh, where they had got an FIR registered for the alleged rape and killing of their daughter. The parents said the condition in which the body was found showed that the victim was raped and killed.
According to the FIR, Acharya forcibly sent the body for cremation without informing police and later, conducted a "havan" in the classroom where the body was found to destroy all evidence related to the case such as the victim's slippers and dupatta with which her body was found hanging.
The parents of the victim alleged that they were restrained in a classroom and forced to sign blank papers, without calling police or sending the body for post-mortem.
On the plea of the parents, a Supreme Court bench of justices Ajay Rastogi and CT Ravi Kumar, in April this year, directed the Uttar Pradesh and Haryana governments to hand over the relevant case files and documents to the CBI within four weeks.