Kota: The Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) court of Rajasthan's Kota on Friday rejected the application seeking to record fresh statements of the victims in Baran rape case.
According to sources, on September 30, two minor girls, aged 13 and 15, from Baran in Rajasthan, were taken to Kota, Jaipur and Ajmer and were raped for three days.
Reportedly, the father of the victims had also urged police to help him get justice. When the girls tried to tell police officers about the incident, the accused had allegedly threatened to kill them in front of the police.
In this case, the police moved an application seeking to record fresh statements of the victims, which was rejected by the court.
The two sisters have reportedly admitted on camera that the two boys had abducted them, drugged them and raped for days.
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Despite their statement, Rajasthan CM and Congress senior leader Ashok Gehlot has taken to Twitter to claim that the minor girls were not ‘forced’.
He claims that they went with the boys on their own free will. The Rajasthan CM tweeted that the girls have themselves admitted in front of the magistrate in their CrPC section 164 statement that they were not forced by the boys, who he claims were also minors.
He said that the girls are being given medical treatment and the investigation is underway.
Meanwhile, a committee under the chairmanship of Dausa MP Jaskaur Meena has been constituted, in which the Malpura MLA, as directed by Dr Satish Poonia, State President of the Bharatiya Janata Party, to investigate the facts of the gangrape incident.
The committee will meet the victims' family in Baran and investigate the incidents. The committee will soon submit the report to the state president, sources added.
