HC pulls up City SP in Doranda rape case

The Jharkhand High Court on Friday pulled up state police for not being able to crack the Doranda rape case. The court said that it may pass a strict order against the Investigating Officer, if she fails to conduct the investigation in this regard. The case is currently being investigated by Ranchi City SP Jaya Roy.

The court was hearing a PIl which was initiated after taking a suo-motto cognizance of the reports related to sexual abuse of two minor girls taking place in the State Capital were published in the local newspapers on April 25 last year.

“The court observed that the investigation of the case was revolving round the same point where it had been left earlier,” said the amicus curie advocate Rajiv Kumar.According to Kumar, the court also observed verbally that the manner in which the City SP Jaya Roy was investigating the case, the day will come that we will have to pass an order that she may not be posted as a City SP anywhere in the state of Jharkhand. The court said that in such circumstances, they may opt for any other independent agency to investigate the case in the next date.

A six-year-old girl was raped, tortured and killed in Doranda, while a three-year-old was molested in Burdwan Compound area. The six-year old girl had been missing since April 24 and was found dead, with her right hand broken, right ear chopped off and injury marks on her neck after two days from a construction site opposite her house.

The Ranchi Police later arrested three boys on suspicion and a 22-year-old, Md Saddam, was produced in court and taken to jail. The accused, however, never confessed his involvement in the crime.