A criminal writ petition seeking compensation for Ajit Kumar, one of the victims in the Priti fake murder case, was filed in the Jharkhand High Court on Tuesday. A demand was also made by victim Ajit Kumar to file an FIR against those who were responsible for keeping the petitioner for about six months in jail for the crime which actually did not take place. SSP, DSP, IO along with Priti’s father, who identified the body of an unknown as his daughter, have been made party in the case.
“We have requested the court to decide on the amount of compensation for each and every day the petitioner had to go through the trauma of being lodged in Birsa Munda Central Jail for a crime which actually did not take place,” said petitioner’s advocate Rajiv Kumar. Ajeet along with two of his friends — Amarjeet and Abhimanyu — had been lodged in jail for about four months for the crime which they actually had not committed. Even after Priti, whose rape and murder charges had landed them in prison resurfaced they were lodged in jail for several months.
On February 19, a police investigation indicated that Priti was gang-raped and set ablaze apparently to hide the evidences. The trio’s ordeal started when a girl’s partially burnt body was recovered about 40 km from Ranchi on February 15 at an isolated place between Gosaidih and Majhi Toli in Bundu police station area.
According to police reports, a girl hailing from Sai Colony, Chutia, had gone to Dhurwa dam with her boyfriend Ajit for a Valentine’s Day date where she was gangraped and killed by him along with the help of his friends Amarjit and Abhimanyu. The girl’s parents even identified the body leading to the arresting of three youths.