Baghel: Rape victim commits self-immolation: Suspended DSP arrested in Barabanki, sent to jail. Varanasi News – Times of India

Varanasi: Former circle officer of Bhelupur and suspended DSP Amaresh Baghel After his arrest from Barabanki, he was sent to 14-day judicial custody on Thursday. A case has been registered against jailed BSP MP Atul under various sections of the IPC in connection with the suicide of the complainant and key witness in a rape case, 306 (abetment to suicide). View.
Police Commissioner A Satish Ganesh said, “After his arrest, Baghel was charged under sections 193 (willfully giving false evidence at any stage of judicial proceeding), 218 (public servant making false record or writing with intent), 219 (public servant). ), corrupt or maliciously, at any stage of the judicial proceeding, any report, order, judgment, or judgment which he knows to be contrary to law) and of the IPC in the case registered by Inspector Lanka Mahesh Makes or promulgates section 306 (abetment to suicide). Pandey.”
“After his medical examination, he was produced in the court and later sent to 14-day judicial custody. Baghel has been accused of helping rape accused Aul Rai.”
The FIR lodged at the Lanka Police Station alleges that “with the intention of shielding Atul Rai, who was booked under sections 420, 376, 504 and 506 in 2019, Baghel in the performance of his duty was incomplete and baseless”. fabricated documents. A report with legal and factual errors was prepared to benefit Rai during the course of the investigation. Disturbed by Baghel’s antics, in the rape case, the complainant along with the main witness committed suicide by holding Baghel responsible through social media. Baghel is responsible for abetting the suicide.
A case was registered against Baghel on the complaint of Inspector Lanka after midnight on Wednesday after his arrest in Barabanki. He was brought here in police custody. Baghel was suspended by the state government on December 30, 2020, for laxity in the investigation of the rape case after the leak of parts of his investigation report, the BSP MP was accused of a conspiracy hatched by a jailed gangster. The victim was shown.
On August 17, the complainant and the key witness had set ablaze the police and other officials outside the Supreme Court in New Delhi on charges of conspiring against DIG Amit Pathak, retired IG Amitabh Thakur and a judge. via live streaming on her Facebook page.
The witness succumbed to his injuries on August 21 at RML Hospital, while the complainant died on August 24. The incident had triggered massive action as former Varanasi SSP Amit Pathak was attached to the DGP headquarters by the state home department. He too He was accused of harassing them during his tenure as Kashi district police chief.
Inspector in charge of Cantonment police station in Varanasi Rakesh Singh Sub-Inspector Girijashankar Yadav has also been suspended in this connection. The state government had constituted an SIT to probe the self-immolation case by the duo and based on the report submitted by the two-member panel, further action was taken like arrest of Thakur in Lucknow and now Baghel.
The episode started in May 2019 when the woman filed a case against Atul Rai at the Lanka police station alleging that he had raped her in his apartment on 7 March 2019 and also recorded a video . Rai, who had filed his nomination as a BSP candidate from the Ghosi parliamentary seat, won the election as a fugitive and later surrendered before the court on June 22, 2019. Closed in opinion since then. Naini Jail in Prayagraj.
(The identity of the victim is not disclosed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Court directions on matters related to sexual harassment)

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