Jharkhand High Court on Monday slammed those police officials who had wrongly
framed three youths for murdering a girl Priti in 2014 who was actually not murdered.
The petitioner Ajit Kumar who is a victim filed a petition at the Jharkhand High Court for
action against such officials as well as compensation.
The court headed by Justice Sanjay Dwivedi observed that why not compensate the
amount deducted from the salary of the guilty police officers in this case and give it to the
victims namely Ajit Kumar, Amarjeet Kumar and Abhimanyu alias Monu. The victims
were represented by their lawyer Aakashdip whereas Manoj Kumar represented the state.
The next hearing of this case has been fixed on June 10.
The case dates back to February 2014 when a girl Priti from Chutia locality went missing
on February 15. The next day police recovered the charred body of a woman at Manjhi
Toli under Bundu police station. The family suspected that the deceased was Priti. But
police without DNA matching confirmed that the deceased was Priti who was gang raped
and murdered.
Police arrested three innocent youths and submitted a chargesheet. They were tortured to
accept that they gang raped and murdered that girl. Few months after the girl was spotted
alive. Priti resurfaced along with her lover on June, 14, 2014.
The CID investigated the case and said that police framed them without investigation.
The investigating officer of this case Surendra Kumar was suspended along with officer
in-charge of Chutia police station Krishna Murari and Sanjay Kumar of Bundu police
station.
After seven years they were discharged by the court after which they approached the
Human Rights Commission for compensation which ordered a compensation of Rs one
lakh to each of them.