Gang rape, suicide: Within 10 days of FIR, chargesheet filed in Vadodara

VADODARA: The city police on Monday filed a chargesheet in the alleged gangrape and suicide of a 19-year-old girl in a record time.
Police investigated the case, collected evidence and filed a chargesheet against the accused duo in the court within 10 days. The state government has also agreed to rope in a special public prosecutor for the trial.
“We began investigation swiftly and collected clinching evidence against the accused. The motive behind filing the chargesheet within 10 days is to send a strong message of deterrence. Such crimes will be taken very seriously and all efforts will be made to punish the culprits,” said Shamsher Singh, city police commissioner.
In the chargesheet, the cops have included statements of the eye-witnesses recorded under CrPC section 164 and voice spectrograph of the girl’s boyfriend. Also, the girl’s voice recording that she sent to her boyfriend wherein she said that something bad happened to her, has been included in the chargesheet.
Police are waiting Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) tests of the semen sample to ascertain if both the accused - Dishant Kahar and Nazeem Mirza - had raped the girl. “In the chargesheet, Dishant has been named as a prime accused while Nazeem an accomplice in the crime. Nazeem also tried to rape the girl but she warded off his attempts,” said a police official.
“I have talked with the state government on Monday and it agreed to hire a special public prosecutor for a speedy trial,” Singh added.
The girl, who worked in a private firm, was raped at her residence in Laxmipura area by her colleagues on June 8. Her boyfriend informed her father who then called the accused to his home the next day. Police said that he made them delete all the photographs they had of her along with the chats.
The girl, though, committed suicide on June 10 following which the police was informed. The cops then filed an FIR against Dishant and Nazeem and arrested them immediately.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme court directives on cases related to sexual assault)