The Allahabad Excessive Court docket will monitor all facets, together with the CBI investigations and offering safety to the sufferer’s household in addition to the witnesses, within the alleged gang-rape and subsequent loss of life of a Dalit woman in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras, the Supreme Court docket mentioned right now because it heard a batch of petitions in search of a court-monitored probe into the case. “As far as the switch is worried, it’s appropritae for the investigating company to finish the investigation,” it mentioned.
A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde mentioned that plea for switch of trial out of Uttar Pradesh within the case can be thought-about later after the CBI probe is accomplished.
The highest court docket, which handed the decision on a batch of pleas of activists and attorneys who’ve claimed {that a} honest trial was not doable in Uttar Pradesh because the probe has allegedly been botched up, mentioned that CBI will file the standing report within the case earlier than the excessive court docket.
The lawyer, showing for the sufferer’s household, had advised the highest court docket that trial within the case be shifted out of Uttar Pradesh to a court docket within the nationwide capital after completion of investigation.
A 20-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly raped by 4 upper-caste males in Hathras on September 14. She died on September 29 at Delhi”s Safdarjung Hospital throughout therapy.