Former Andaman Bureaucrat Back In Police Custody In Gang Rape Case
NDTV
The woman alleged that she was lured to the chief secretary Jitendra Narain's home with the promise of a government job, and then raped there on April 14 and May 1.
A local court on Wednesday remanded former chief secretary of Andaman and Nicobar Islands Jitendra Narain to police custody till November 25 in a gang rape case filed against him and others by a 21-year-old woman.
The police sought the custody of Narain, who was in judicial remand, as the special investigation team (SIT) wants to interrogate him jointly with two other accused - suspended Labour Commissioner Rishishwar Lal Rishi and a businessman Sandeep Singh alias Rinku.
After hearing the arguments of Public Prosecutor Sumit Karmakar, the victim's lawyer Phatick Chandra Das and Rishi's counsel Rakesh Pal Govind, Chief Judicial Magistrate Ayan Majumder forwarded Narain and Singh to police custody till November 25.
Rishi, who was arrested on Monday after he reached here from Chennai, is in police custody since November 22.
