Kanpur:The police on Saturday impounded a truck and detained its driver wanted in connection with the mowing down of Sajeti gang rape survivor’s father outside a community health centre (CHC) in Ghatampur, Kanpur on the morning of March 10. Police hope that interrogation and call detail records of the truck driver will bring out facts regarding the incident.
The mishap took place when the survivor reached the CHC for medical examination after an FIR was filed in the gang rape case. As her father and uncle stepped out of CHC to drink tea at a roadside hotel, the former was mowed down by a speeding truck.
Later, a case regarding the accident had been registered by the girl’s family and the police had booked sub-inspector Devendra Yadav, father of Deepu Yadav, one of the gang rape accused, on charges of murder in connection with the death of the survivor’s father.
The family members of the deceased had alleged in the FIR that SI Yadav, posted in neighbouring Kannauj district, hatched a conspiracy to kill the survivor’s father and make it look like a road accident.
“After an FIR was lodged against the SI, our eight teams were working day and night to trace the truck and its driver. We have finally impounded the truck and are interrogating the driver to ascertain the circumstances under which the survivor’s father was killed,” said DIG Preetinder Singh.
A senior police official privy to the investigation told TOI that they will also scan and analyse truck driver’s phone call details.
To recall, the Kanpur’s Sajeti Police had filed a case under Section 376D (A)-(punishment for gang rape on woman under 16 years of age), 504 (whoever intentionally insults, and thereby gives provocation to any person, intending or knowing it to be likely that such provocation will cause him to break the public peace, or to commit any other offence), 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation) of IPC and 5G/6 POCSO Act on Tuesday based on a complaint by the girl’s father.
The girl’s father had stated in his complaint that on Monday when his daughter was returning home from the fields at around 7 p.m., accused Deepu Yadav and Golu Yadav caught hold of her. Later, they took her to a secluded spot and took turns to rape her and also threatened to kill her if she raised an alarm.
The girl somehow managed to return home late at night and narrated her ordeal.
The girl’s family alleged that a day after the incident, when they were heading toward Sajeti police station to lodge a complaint, Deepu’s brother Saurabh Yadav had threatened to eliminate them if they would make a complaint against them.
The death of the rape survivor’s father sparked protest on Kanpur-Sagar highway, just metres away from Ghatampur CHC where his 13-year-old daughter was undergoing medical examination for sexual assault early Wednesday. Shockingly, the incident took place before a posse of policemen escorting the man and his daughter.