Gurgaon: A city court has directed the police commissioner to initiate an inquiry against two police officers for allegedly registering a case Extortion The case against the woman who filed a rape complaint this May.
Additional Sessions Judge Sunil Kumar Divan, in its June 26 order, said the court was “astonished” as to how the investigator came to the conclusion that the accused, Coronation Mittal was innocent. The judge said the investigating officer did not collect any evidence and it appeared that the woman’s statement was more “credible”. The court gave this order while granting anticipatory bail to the woman.
According to the police, the rape case was registered by the woman resident of Gurgaon at the Women’s Police Station on May 1. Mittal was briefly detained from a city guest house and a rape case was registered.
On 23 and 30 May, the woman filed two more written complaints to the police commissioner, accusing the police of inaction on her rape complaint. Mittal, a resident of Firozabad, filed a case of extortion on June 7, following which the woman and her husband were booked under IPC sections 384 (extortion), 388 (extortion by threat) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) Went.
The woman’s counsel Amarjeet Yadav told the court that she was being falsely implicated in the extortion charge to “save Abhishek Mittal”.
In the rape complaint, the woman said Mittal had asked her to meet him on May 1 for a job opportunity and the two went to Galleria Market. He then took her to a guest house in Sector 40, where he allegedly raped her. According to the FIR, the woman called the police helpline and was taken into custody from the guest house.
The woman was also taken to the Civil Hospital in Sector 10, where she was treated till May 9, her lawyer told the court while presenting the medical reports. “The police were bribed,” Yadav said.
During the hearing, public prosecutor Vinod Kumar Sardhana informed the court about different developments.
Mittal said in his extortion complaint that his colleague at the NGO where he worked – Blessing Pandey — Got him in touch with the woman. Mittal said he met the woman at her flat in Gurgaon on January 31 when her husband was out and stayed there for two days.
After this, the woman started demanding money from him and pressurized him to give up to Rs 20,000. In April, Ashish called Mittal and told him that the woman was pregnant and was threatening to release her photographs online if he did not meet her.
Mittal alleged that he met her on May 1, following which she took him to the guest house. The woman’s husband was also there and allegedly demanded Rs 2 lakh to settle the matter. Mittal said that after transferring Rs 24,000, the woman lodged a complaint of rape.
The Additional Sessions Judge, after hearing both the arguments, said that the court is surprised to see how the investigator has come to a conclusion about Abhishek Mittal’s innocence despite the fact that he was detained in the hotel and the woman was admitted. Was. Stayed in the hospital for several days after the brutal rape”. The judge said, “There is no evidence to suggest that Abhishek Mittal was honeytrapped”.
The court, while directing the probe, observed that the IOs of the rape and extortion cases had not performed their duties. “If any dereliction of duty is found on the part of the investigators or any of their superior officers, interfering with the fair investigation, action should be taken against them also…” the court ruled.
Additional Sessions Judge Sunil Kumar Divan, in its June 26 order, said the court was “astonished” as to how the investigator came to the conclusion that the accused, Coronation Mittal was innocent. The judge said the investigating officer did not collect any evidence and it appeared that the woman’s statement was more “credible”. The court gave this order while granting anticipatory bail to the woman.
According to the police, the rape case was registered by the woman resident of Gurgaon at the Women’s Police Station on May 1. Mittal was briefly detained from a city guest house and a rape case was registered.
On 23 and 30 May, the woman filed two more written complaints to the police commissioner, accusing the police of inaction on her rape complaint. Mittal, a resident of Firozabad, filed a case of extortion on June 7, following which the woman and her husband were booked under IPC sections 384 (extortion), 388 (extortion by threat) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) Went.
The woman’s counsel Amarjeet Yadav told the court that she was being falsely implicated in the extortion charge to “save Abhishek Mittal”.
In the rape complaint, the woman said Mittal had asked her to meet him on May 1 for a job opportunity and the two went to Galleria Market. He then took her to a guest house in Sector 40, where he allegedly raped her. According to the FIR, the woman called the police helpline and was taken into custody from the guest house.
The woman was also taken to the Civil Hospital in Sector 10, where she was treated till May 9, her lawyer told the court while presenting the medical reports. “The police were bribed,” Yadav said.
During the hearing, public prosecutor Vinod Kumar Sardhana informed the court about different developments.
Mittal said in his extortion complaint that his colleague at the NGO where he worked – Blessing Pandey — Got him in touch with the woman. Mittal said he met the woman at her flat in Gurgaon on January 31 when her husband was out and stayed there for two days.
After this, the woman started demanding money from him and pressurized him to give up to Rs 20,000. In April, Ashish called Mittal and told him that the woman was pregnant and was threatening to release her photographs online if he did not meet her.
Mittal alleged that he met her on May 1, following which she took him to the guest house. The woman’s husband was also there and allegedly demanded Rs 2 lakh to settle the matter. Mittal said that after transferring Rs 24,000, the woman lodged a complaint of rape.
The Additional Sessions Judge, after hearing both the arguments, said that the court is surprised to see how the investigator has come to a conclusion about Abhishek Mittal’s innocence despite the fact that he was detained in the hotel and the woman was admitted. Was. Stayed in the hospital for several days after the brutal rape”. The judge said, “There is no evidence to suggest that Abhishek Mittal was honeytrapped”.
The court, while directing the probe, observed that the IOs of the rape and extortion cases had not performed their duties. “If any dereliction of duty is found on the part of the investigators or any of their superior officers, interfering with the fair investigation, action should be taken against them also…” the court ruled.