SIT formed to probe Navsari girl’s gang rape and suicide

Surat: Twenty-four days after she was allegedly raped in Vadodara, a special investigation team (SIT) has been formed to investigate the crime that has left the cops groping in the dark.
The six-member SIT headed by IGP (CID and railways) Subhash Trivedi will focus on tracking down the accused, who allegedly raped the girl and collecting evidence in the case.
Cops from Vadodara crime branch and railway police from Valsad and Surat will be members of the team. Over the last three weeks, 25 teams from different agencies had been investigating the case and they questioned dozens of auto-rickshaws, and scanned CCTV footage of the area where the girl was allegedly raped. But they have failed to track down the accused.
Investigators have also questioned employees of the institute in Vadodara where the girl used to work. The girl was found hanging in the coach of a train in Valsad on November 4. During initial investigations, the railway cops found the girl’s diary wherein she had written that she was kidnapped and raped by two auto-drivers in Vadodara.
Within a few days, Vadodara police and Ahmedabad crime branch too joined the investigation. The cops are also trying to find out the girl’s cycle that’s been missing since the day she was allegedly raped in Vaccine Institute Ground in Vadodara. The Valsad railway police have said in their FIR said that an employee of the institute had taken photos of some pages of the girl’s diary and sent the images to the trustees of the institution on Whatsapp. The images were later deleted.
Meanwhile, a team of Ahmedabad crime branch also visited the Vaccine Ground to get more clues about the case.