Two months after the repeated gang -ape with a 16 year-old girl by five dismissed UT police constables in the City, the police on Friday filed the charge-sheet against them. The accused will be produced in the fast track court on February 28.
The police filed a charge-sheet of around 300 pages including the CFSl reports, list of witnesses, details of investigation and statement and medical report of the victim, in the fast track court. Charges under Sections 341, 342, 354, 376, 506 120-B of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, were slapped against the accused. Police had arrested the five dismissed constables of Chandigarh police, Akshay Kumar, Jagtar Singh, Sunil Kumar, Anil and Himmat, on December 19 for repeated gang raping the victim, a Class X student, at gun point. Akshay and Sunil, in their statement to police, had confessed to the rape saying that they took the victim to the Mullanpur forest area and raped her.
The girl said in her complaint that she had come in contact with Akshay, when her father got into a dispute with a neighbour and the police was called for help. After that, Akshay and the other accused began stalking her in the PCR (police control room) van and made sexual advances. Akshay also hired a room and he, along with the others, forced her into it and raped her at gunpoint.
The matter came to light when the girl tried to commit suicide in a fit of depression since the constables had begun accosting her on her way to school and elsewhere. She was being constantly harassed and stalked. A cousin approached a city councillor and, with his help, an FIR was lodged against them and Special Investigation Team (SIT) was also formed in the case