KOLKATA: Calcutta excessive court docket on Friday directed Kolkata Police particular commissioner Damayanti Sen and IG visitors Parul Kush Jain to supervise the continued probes into the Namkhana and Pingla rape instances, respectively. The event got here after the court docket examined the case diaries of the 5 rape and sexual assault instances in Maynaguri, Pingla, Namkhana, Netra and Santiniketan.
The HC directed the state to submit a standing report through the subsequent listening to on Could 2.
Advocate Pallabi Chatterjee and 11 different girls advocates had drawn the eye of Chief Justice Prakash Shrivastava on Monday searching for a CBI probe into the rape and sexual assault instances. The BJP filed a separate PIL within the Namkhana case through which a 40-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped on April 8.
Throughout Friday's listening to, the petitioner complained that police have been but to grab the kerosene jar utilized by the accused to assert that the state probe was removed from passable. The petitioner's counsel additionally submitted that police did not report the assertion of neighbours who had heard the wails of the sufferer on the fateful day.
A division bench of Chief Justice Prakash Shrivastava and Justice Rajarshi Bharadwaj, whereas perusing the Namkhana case diary, noticed: "Having examined the case diary and contemplating the report within the type of the affidavit and being attentive to the allegations made and progress of investigation, we deem it correct that investigation on this case be carried out by IPS Damayanti Sen."
The HC had not too long ago directed Sen to supervise the investigation into the rape instances at Deganga and Matia in North 24 Parganas, Englishbazar in Malda and Bansdroni on the southern fringes of town.
It directed IPS Parul Kush Jain to watch the investigation into the Pingla case through which a Trinamool-run gram panchayat member had allegedly raped a otherwise abled girl on April 11.
The division bench picked up Jain's title from a listing of 5 woman IPS officers advocate normal S N Mookherjee had submitted. The Chief Justice held that a senior woman officer ought to oversee the investigation as a result of "an influential particular person" was the accused.
The petitioner pleaded for a probe by a central company. The bench mentioned it could take into account the prayer if it was discovered that the investigation was not being carried out correctly.
(The sufferer's id has not been revealed to guard her privateness as per Supreme Court docket directives on instances associated to sexual assault)