Hindustan Times (Lucknow)

Kathua case: SIT visits CS varsity

- S Raju S.raju@hindustant­imes.com ▪

MEERUT : Special investigat­ion team probing the Kathua gangrape case has collected evidences from Ch Charan Singh University to verify if the four accused arrested in the case participat­ed in their exams on the day of incident.

An 8-year-old girl was gangraped and thereafter murdered in Kathua in J&K. The SIT probing the case arrested four youths in this connection but to prove their innocence they pleaded that they were writing their exams on January 12,15 and 17 in K K Jain College of Khatauli in Muzaffarna­gar when the incident occurred in Kathua. The accused are student of B. Sc agricultur­e first year in a private college of Muzaffarna­gar and CCS University conducts the exams.

University’s spokespers­on Prashant Kumar said the officials of SIT had arrived in the

AN 8YEAROLD GIRL WAS GANGRAPED AND THEREAFTER MURDERED IN KATHUA IN J&K

university a few days ago and enquired about exams and demanded copies and other evidences to verify presence of some students in their exams. He said that University had provided them all required material.

Dy SP Sanjeev Deshwal, who has been investigat­ing the case of MBBS copy exchange in CCS University, said that he also came to know about visit of the SIT but they didn’t contact local cops.

The SIT also visited the Jain college in Khatauli in Muzaffarna­gar.

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