Mysuru gangrape case: Siddaramaiah questions police for not obtaining victim’s statement
The Hindu
Says law and order has collapsed in State
Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly Siddaramaiah has slammed the police for their ‘failure’ to obtain the victim’s statement in the Mysuru gangrape case and said it showed their laxity. Speaking to medi persons in the city on Wednesday Mr. Siddaramaiah said the law provides for the police to record a statement and it was mandatory but they have not followed the procedure. Incidentally, DGP and IG Praveen Sood had stated recently that the victim was traumatised by the incident and they would wait for her to recover before recording her statement. Mr. Sood had also said that they are building up technical and scientific evidence to get a conviction even without the victim’s statement and had cited the example of a similar incident reported in Manipal in 2013.A crowd comprising farmers, researchers, professors, students, and horticulture enthusiasts thronged the ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR), Hesaraghatta, Bengaluru, on Friday for the inaugural ceremony of the Triphal Diversity Show which showcased 300 mango, 100 jackfruit, and 100 banana genotypes in collaboration with ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tiruchirappalli.
The State government on Friday constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by Additional Director-General of Police, Manish Kharbikar of the Economic Offences division of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to probe the alleged multi-crore scam in the government-run Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation.