Court seeks 'action taken report' from Delhi police in Nangal rape case

Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court on Wednesday asked the Delhi Police to submit an action taken report on a plea seeking action against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi under the POSCO Act in connection with a Nangal rape case.

New Delhi:Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court on Wednesday asked the Delhi Police to submit an action taken report on a plea seeking action against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi under the POSCO Act in connection with a Nangal rape case.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Dharmendra Singh has posted the matter for the next hearing on 29 September.

Delhi BJP media chief Naveen Kumar Jindal had filed the petition demanding an FIR against Rahul Gandhi to reveal the identity of the victim's family in the Delhi Cantt case. Naveen Jindal had alleged that "Rahul Gandhi has exposed the identity of the parents of the minor victim. FIR should be registered against him under POCSO Act."

On August 1, a nine-year-old girl was allegedly raped and killed by a priest and three employees of a crematorium near the Delhi Cantonment area in southwest Delhi. Following which, Rahul Gandhi had visited to meet her family members.

After the visit, Rahul Gandhi had posted the victim's family picture on his Twitter account, which was taken into cognizance by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights and had ordered to remove Gandhi's tweet on 4th August. After that, Twitter had suspended Gandhi's account.

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