Daijiworld Media Network – Bengaluru (MS)
Bengaluru, Jul 2: The Children’s special court opined that the investigation is not properly done in the rape and murder case of 17-year-old girl Soujanya. The court gave its opinion after accused Santhosh Rao was given an acquittal .
The court said that the samples collected by the doctors after the rape were not complementary to the case. So suitable action should be taken against erring officials.
This case was registered in October 2012 and Beltangady police investigated the matter. Later, the case was handed over to Special crime department of CBI Chennai in 2013. It submitted its report in 2016. In the order of June 2016, Justice C B Santhosh noticed that there were no suitable witnesses or evidences to connect the accused Santhosh to the crime.
The justice pronounced that the prosecution had failed to prove the accusations and asked the district legal services authority to provide compensation to the parents of the deceased Soujanya.
The justice said, “Accused Santhosh is not connected to the crime at all. He is falsely accused. In the DNA report also there is no positive evidence against the accused. Semen marks or the hair of the victim girl were not found on the cloth of the accused. The mud that was found on the confiscated items and vaginal swab were the same. But they were not found on the clothes of the accused."
“The surprising fact is that no evidence was recovered from the spot where the crime took place. If the rape had occurred at the said place, what prevented the investigating officers to call the team of experts to the spot to find footprints or hair of the people who were actually involved in the crime?"
“Prosecution could not verify the last seen ideology and there was no evidence that the victim girl was dragged into the bushes and raped.”
The judge also said that when there were no clues from the investigating agency about the accused and vaginal swab report of experts was the best evidence to connect the criminals with the crime. However, forensic experts did not collect the vaginal swab properly. Vaginal swab should be packed after drying. But the doctor had not done it. That is why there was no positive results in the DNA test as fungus developed in the evidence that was collected.”
In 2016, summons was served on suspected accused Mallik Jain, Dheeraj Jain and Uday Jain. However, high court quashed the summons after hearing their appeal.
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