CBI takes over probe into rape and murder of Noida school student
New Delhi, June 7: The CBI has taken over the probe in a case of alleged rape and killing of a 14year-old girl in a school in Noida’s Sorkha village, officials said on Tuesday.
The case was handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) by the Supreme Court on a plea of the girl’s parents, who had alleged that their daughter’s body was found hanging in a classroom of the Arya Kanya Gurukul Vaiddham in Sorkha village in Noida Sector 115, where she used to study, on July 3, 2020.
The institution is run by one Jayendra Acharya and his wife.
The parents have alleged that Acharya had called them to the gurukul without informing them that their daughter had died.
They have also alleged that upon their arrival, Acharya and his wife, with the help of unidentified goons, snatched their mobile phones and other belongings to ensure that no pictures were taken and took them to the classroom where their daughter was hanging.
Two separate FIRs were registered by the Noida police and the Haryana police on July 17 and September 9, 2020 respectively, 14 and 68 days after the incident.
The parents of the victim approached the Punjab and Haryana high court after no action was taken by the police in Haryana, where they had lodged a case of abduction, and in Uttar Pradesh, where they had got an FIR registered for the alleged rape and killing of their daughter.
The parents said the condition in which the body was found showed that the victim was raped and killed.
According to the FIR, Acharya forcibly sent the body for cremation without informing the police and later conducted a havan in the classroom where the body was found in order to destroy all evidence related to the case such as the victim’s slippers and dupatta by which her body was found hanging.