A local court in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district on Tuesday acquitted all the 13 “Naxals” allegedly involved in blowing up the passenger bus at Chingavaram in the neighbouring district of Sukma on May 27, 2010, in which 24 civilians and 11 security personnel were killed, citing lack of evidence.
Delivering the judgement in the case, additional district judicial magistrate (ADJM), Dantewada, Anita Dehria set free all the 13 accused, chargesheeted in the case, on the ground that no witness could be produced by the prosecution to establish their involvement in the incident, prosecution counsel K.K. Dubey told this newspaper on phone from Dantewada. “Total 15 people were arrested in connection with the incident. However, two of them died during the trial of the case. The rest 13 accused were acquitted by the ADJM, Dantewada due to lack of evidence,” Mr Dubey said.
The acquittal of all the accused in the incident is viewed in security circles here as a blow to the ongoing anti-Naxal operations in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region..
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Minor raped, UP cops lock up victim instead
age correspondent
Lucknow, April 9
The UP police once again showed its callous side when it shoved a 10-year-old girl into the lock-up in Bulandshahr district. The minor girl, who had been allegedly raped by a local goon, had come to the women’s police station with her mother to lodge a complaint. The women cops pushed her behind bars. The girl, who belongs to Meerpur village, remained behind bars for several hours till her mother sought help from the locals who collected there and staged a protest. SSP Gulab Singh, however, took stern action and suspended two women constables and sent two sub-Inspectors, including the station-in-charge, to the following the incident. The suspended women constables said that they had put the girl in the lock up to protect her from those who had allegedly raped her.
The girl was found lying unconscious in a field.