Police file 400-page chargesheet against 4 in Dalit girl rape case

‘Document has sufficient evidence against the four accused’

The Delhi police on Saturday filed chargesheet in the Delhi Cantonment rape case in which a nine-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly raped, murdered and later cremated without her parents’ consent on August 2. The police said that a 400-page chargesheet was submitted by Crime Branch and that they have sufficient evidence against the four accused who have been chargesheeted — Kuldeep Singh, Laxmi Narayan, Radhey Shyam and Salim Ahmad. All the accused are currently in judicial custody. The accused were charged under Sections 302 (murder), 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 376D (gang rape), 342 (wrongful confinement), 506 (criminal intimidation), 201 (destruction of evidence) and 34 (common intention) of the IPC. The four have also been chargesheeted under Section 6 (aggravated penetrative sexual assault) of the POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act and Section 3 (offences of atrocities) of the SC/ST Act.