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Akhnoor sex scandal: Father of victim approaches HC, says police not following norms 12/19/2015 11:47:28 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Dec 19: In the infamous Akhnoor sex scam, the father of the victim has approached the High Court against police for not following the procedure while investigating the case. In the petition, filed through the child rights activist Deepika Singh Rajawat, the father of the aggrieved girl (name withheld) has alleged that against norms, his daughter was made to travel in an open vehicle, which in turn exposed here identity. The petitioner also alleged that the statement of the victim was also recorded after week after she was recovered from Pathankot along with a local youth (who was granted interim bail in the case). "As victim's statement was recorded under CrPc 164 after a week but the victim was kept under illegal custody of the Akhnoor Police Station. Father of the victim also stated in his petition while exposing Police said, " During this period the girl was kept under illegal custody instead of shifting the victim to the Women Cell, Jammu." Yet in another development Passenger Duty Magistrate has extended the judicial remand of four of the accused arrested in the Akhnoor Sex Racket Case up to December 28. Here it needs to mention that Police yet have made no further arrests it only has arrested five small businessmen and shopkeepers from Akhnoor. However it is alleged that all the influential businessmen and the local political leader who was also named by the victim before the Municipal Judge are roaming scot free till now. If sources are to be believed, a top politician is mounting pressure on the Police to withhold the name of all the accused who were not named before the court and are known to the victim only and slow down the investigation process to put the issue into the cold storage.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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