New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday said the Allahabad High Court will monitor the CBI probe into the alleged gang-rape case of a 19-year-old in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras alleged gang-rape.
Allahabad High Court will consider all aspects, and the CBI will file status reports there, the top court said.
The court was hearing a batch of pleas which sought court-monitored investigation into alleged gang-rape and murder of a Dalit girl in Hathras and transfer of trial from Uttar Pradesh to Delhi.
However, the three-judge bench headed by CJI SA Bobde said that it would consider the plea for transfer of the trial out of Uttar Pradesh only after the probe is completed by the CBI.
The court also requested the Allahabad High Court to remove details of the victim and her family from its order after Solicitor General Tushar Mehta brought this to the top court's notice.
The bench comprising Chief Justice S A Bobde, Justice A S Bopanna and Justice V Ramasubramanian had on October 15 reserved its verdict on a public interest litigation (PIL) and several intervention pleas of activists and lawyers who have argued that a fair trial was not possible in Uttar Pradesh as the probe has allegedly been botched up.
The lawyer, appearing for the victim's family, had told the apex court that trial in the case be shifted out of Uttar Pradesh to a court in the national capital after completion of investigation.
A 19-year-old Dalit woman was allegedly raped by four upper-caste men in Hathras on September 14. She died on September 29 at Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital during treatment.
