Uttar Pradesh government failed to submit the report today.
Uttar Pradesh government failed to submit the report today.
Allahabad
: The Allahabad High Court has asked the Uttar Pradesh government to produce by tomorrow a status report on the investigation in the Bulandshahr gangrape case after it failed to submit the report on Wednesday.
A division bench comprising Chief Justice D B Bhosale and Justice Yashwant Varma, which has taken suo motu cognizance of the sexual assault on a minor girl and her mother, had on August 8 directed that the status report be submitted on August 10.
However, when Advocate General Vijay Bahadur Singh made a request for more time to submit the status report, the court ordered that the same be produced -"tomorrow, by 2 PM in a sealed cover-".
The court has taken a grim view of the incident that took place on July 29, when a car carrying six members of a Noida family to Shahjahanpur in western UP was stopped by criminals on a highway in Bulandhshahr district and the 13-year-old girl and her mother were gang raped in the fields nearby after being dragged out of the vehicle.
The incident evoked a huge outcry and the Samajwadi Party government in the state drew widespread criticism over the law and order situation in UP.
Besides seeking a status report, the court has sought to know from the state government whether it was -"willing to hand over investigation of the case to the CBI-" and -"what steps the state would like to take to avoid such incidents in future-".
