In connection with alleged rape of a woman by now suspended additional secretary JP Joshi, the special police team called two additional secretaries for questioning on Thursday. However, State Director General of Police BS Sidhu has refused to disclose their names.
The court of judicial magistrate-II has rejected bail plea of another accused Shiney Mac who has been on 14 days judicial custody in this case after being arrested under sections under 384, 389, 504, 109, 120 b and IT Act by the police for blackmailing Joshi. Moreover, as per court order, the woman complainant who had to surrender herself in the court on Thursday failed to do so. She may surrender in the court on Friday. Sources said that she did not surrender in the court on medical grounds on Thursday.
Earlier, the Nainital High Court had directed the woman complainant to surrender in the lower court within a week after the expiry of her two-week transit bail. The bail plea of expelled Congress leader Ritu Kandiyal, who had allegedly demanded Rs three crore from Joshi, for the settlement of alleged rape case was rejected in the court of judicial magistrate-II on Wednesday. The bail plea of another accused Neeraj Chauhan was moved in the court on Wednesday and the next date of its hearing was set for December 21.
DGP Sidhu said that investigations in the alleged rape case and counter FIR lodged by Joshi are moving in the right direction and police have collected almost all relevant evidences on both FIRs. This case will soon be solved. Police are collecting evidences to arrest few persons who were involved in blackmailing Joshi on the basis of the CD of his sexual encounter with the woman complainant. DGP Sidhu claimed that this case will be solved within 45 days of it being filed.