NEW DELHI: The Bombay excessive court docket on Tuesday sharply criticized the Particular Investigation Staff (SIT) for its failure to apprehend two college trustees accused within the Badlapur sexual assault case. The division bench, comprising Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Prithviraj Chavan, questioned the police’s incapacity to arrest the trustees, declaring that legislation enforcement normally goes to nice lengths to seize suspects.
“How come they haven’t been in a position to apprehend these two? Are they ready for them to get anticipatory bail?” the court docket requested, expressing frustration with the dearth of progress.
The case, which the court docket took suo motu cognizance of in August, entails the sexual assault of two younger women—aged 4 and 5—contained in the washroom of a college in Badlapur, Thane district. The prime accused, Akshay Shinde, a male attendant, was arrested however killed in a police shootout on September 23.
The Maharashtra authorities, in response to the case, shaped an SIT led by an Inspector Normal of Police to research the incident. Nonetheless, two trustees of the varsity, together with the chairman and secretary, have been additionally named as accused for failing to report the incident promptly and negligence. Each have been booked underneath the Safety of Youngsters from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
Regardless of being named within the case, the trustees stay at giant. Advocate Normal Birendra Saraf knowledgeable the court docket that the accused had filed for anticipatory bail however had but to be apprehended. He assured the bench that the police have been making efforts to find them.
The court docket has scheduled the following listening to for October 23, demanding updates on the standing of the investigation and the steps taken to apprehend the trustees.
