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The Punjab and Haryana Top Court docket Friday allowed the bail plea of former Himachal Pradesh Inspector Normal of Police Zahur Haider Zaidi, who’s recently in prison at the side of 9 others within the Kotkhai police station custodial demise case.
Zaidi is at the moment suspended and has been lodged in Chandigarh’s Burail Prison for almost 3 years. The case is recently being heard via a CBI courtroom after it was once transferred via the Best Court docket.
On July 4, 2017, at Kotkhai, a minor lady went lacking after college hours from the Haliala woodland. Her bare frame was once discovered within the woodland on July 6 and the autopsy record showed rape. An FIR was once registered on the Kotkhai police station and an SIT was once shaped to probe the homicide case headed via Zaidi.
The SIT on July 13 arrested accused Suraj Singh, at the side of 4 others for allegedly committing the crime. In the meantime, at the night time of July 18, Singh died in custody after allegedly being tortured via the Himachal Police SIT.
On July 22, following the instructions of the Himachal Pradesh Top Court docket, the custodial demise case was once transferred to the CBI which booked the 9 policemen, together with Zaidi, and filed a chargesheet.
Then again, in November 2018, the accused moved the Best Court docket in the hunt for a switch of the case from Shimla to another state for the trial.
The CBI prosecutor additionally submitted on the Best Court docket that the case “has now not noticed the sunshine of the day” and therefore, the case be transferred to a Delhi courtroom for expeditious disposal, and additionally Zaidi, being the previous IGP, would possibly affect the witnesses within the case. The Best Court docket granted bail to Zaidi, and transferred the custodial demise case to Chandigarh CBI Court docket from Shimla, in Might 2019.
On the Chandigarh CBI Court docket, a complete of 28 witnesses were tested until date out of the whole of 107 witnesses. The 8 different policemen, together with Superintendent of Police D W Negi, DSP Theog Manoj Joshi, former Kotkhai Station Area Officer (SHO) Rajinder Singh, ASI Deep Chand, who was once investigating officer of the case, head constables Surat Singh, Mohan Lal and Rafee Mohammad, and Constable Ranjit Steta are dealing with an ordeal.
A few of the accused, handiest SP D W Negi is out on bail at the present after the Best Court docket granted him a breather.
Zaidi was once represented via senior suggest Vinod Ghai with advocates Sanjeev Kodan and Kanika Ahuja within the top courtroom.
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