The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will assume control over the examination concerning the supposed assault and murder of the 19-year-old Dalit lady in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras, the wrongdoing which has started fights and shock the nation over, the Center said in a notice on Saturday.
Officials familiar with the development said the central agency is likely to register a first information report (FIR) by late on Saturday night or early on Sunday. CBI will re-register the FIR filed by the state police and then begin investigations according to the procedure, they added. CBI will only investigate the case pertaining to alleged gang rape and death of the Hathras woman, the officials said.
The agency won’t take over the probe into UP government’s case registered to investigate an alleged criminal conspiracy to spread caste conflict, instigating violence, incidents of vicious propaganda by sections of media and political interests.
The Yogi Adityanath government, which has been censured over the treatment of the wrongdoing, had suggested a CBI test a week ago even as the decision Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) excused the fights by resistance as “political stunts”.
The request came two days after a non-government association (NGO) moved the Supreme Court looking to move the test in the wrongdoing to CBI.
The lady was supposedly assaulted by four upper caste men on September 14 and was alluded to Safdarjung Hospital in an incredibly basic condition. She passed on about fourteen days after the fact on September 29.
Meanwhile, the family members of the woman will appear before the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court amid tight security on Monday. “The district administration and police are drafting a plan for the journey of the victim’s family to Lucknow so that they may appear before the court on October 12. Finer details are being worked out and it is to be decided when to leave Hathras for Lucknow and how many security personnel would accompany the family members,” Hathras’ superintendent of police said.