RYAN MURDER: BUS CONDUCTOR GRANTED BAIL

GURGAON: A special court in Gurgaon on Tuesday granted bail to bus conductor Ashok Kumar, the first suspect in the murder of Ryan International School student Pradhyumn Thakur, saying the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had no evidence against the 42-year-old.

“It is a great relief for us. I was sure that my client was innocent,” Kumar’s counsel Mohit Verma said after Kumar was given bail on a bond of ~50,000.

The court also decided not to change the jurisdiction and said the trial in the case will take place in the same court.

The CBI, however, did not absolve Kumar. NEWDELHI: At least 150 Delhi Police personnel were or are being investigated, or are facing charges over allegations of rape, molestation and sexual harassment over the past six years, but none has been convicted, Hindustan Times has found. In 122 cases, the investigations are on, or the charges have been filed. In the other 28, the policemen involved have been acquitted.

The allegations also include stalking, inappropriate touching and trying to have “unnatural sex” with women, some of whom had come to a police station for help. Among the complainants were three policewomen who accused their seniors of sexual harassment.

The information is based on personnel accused replies Hindustan Times received from 38 of Delhi Police’s 45 departments under the Right to Information law. The rest did not respond. Delhi Police spokesman Dependra Pathak defended the force’s record in dealing with