The Army jawan who was booked on Sunday night in Jharkhand for allegedly raping a minor girl inside a running train was sent to four days’ police remand by Howrah court.
The Army jawan who was booked on Sunday night in Jharkhand for allegedly raping a minor girl inside a running train was sent to four days’ police remand by Howrah court. The accused, Manjrish Tripathi, was brought to Kolkata on Tuesday and handed over to Howrah GRP. The other two jawans involved in the rape are still at large. Police sources said that the victim has already identified the two accused from the video footage of the compartment reserved for the Army in the train.
She also gave her secret confession before the magistrate on Tuesday. “As per the statement of the victim, Tripathi, who has already been caught from Madhupur railway station in Jharkhand, was not directly involved in the rape. But he helped the other two in the crime and he was the person who offered alcohol to the girl. We have slapped sections of gangrape and POCSO on the accused,” said a senior official of the Howrah GRP. She wanted to scream but the three jawans threatened to throw her off the running train.
A 16-year-old runaway daughter of a Bengal excise official from Dum Dum in Kolkata was allegedly raped by two Army jawans inside a compartment of the Howrah-Amritsar Express on Monday. Meanwhile, the Army on Tuesday assured full cooperation to the police in tracing the two jawans accused in the rape case. “We are sharing all the information we have so that the accused can be caught and action taken against them as per the law of the land. We have already initiated an internal investigation,” Army sources said.
