Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh Police created history and space a brand original benchmark in prison justice transport by securing a responsible verdict for two accused, in an try to rape case, in accurate 57 days, after having done the prosecution course of in 14 days.
“This became the main such try ever made in the nation. And we were a success in securing a verdict in such mercurial time after a scientific investigation course of. This case highlights the dapper coordination between the police, prosecution attorneys and the judiciary,” command Director Popular of Police Okay V Rajendranath Reddy suggested PTI.
The case connected to an try to rape towards a Lithuanian national, who became passing thru a woodland patch in SPS Nellore district on March 8, 2022.
Two folk lured her to a space in the woodland and attempted to molest her however she managed to interrupt out to safety and file a criticism with the police.
“Internal three hours, the two accused were arrested and by March 16 we filed the price sheet towards them in court. We got the case listed for prosecution in mercurial time because the victim became presupposed to come to her native nation,” the DGP mentioned.
The trial in the case became done in three days from March 29 and the Nellore classes court done examination of proof in a single extra day.
The court heard the arguments of the two sides on April 6 and 7 and reserved the judgment, which became in the end delivered on May per chance 5.
The two accused, I Saikumar and Syed Mohammad Abid, were sentenced to a penitentiary term of seven years every and ordered to pay a fine of Rs 15,000.
The victim sent a video message to the DGP congratulating and thanking the command police for the immediate conviction.
“This case exemplified how the prison justice gadget would possibly per chance well per chance work successfully thru good coordination. This became a first no longer fully in the command however also the nation that any such case became tried and the accused convicted in accurate a subject of days,” Rajendranath popular.
The DGP mentioned the conviction and the tempo at which it came about, ought to now motivate the criminals stupefied that the gadget would meet up with them in no time.
“The fashioned time taken to complete investigation in rape and (girls folk) homicide conditions got here down to 58 days in the final three years, as towards 222 days for the length of 2016-19. In conditions of gang rape, it has come down to accurate 37 days from 250,” he mentioned.
In 50 per cent of these conditions, the accused were being arrested in decrease than 48 hours.
Rajendranath mentioned AP stood first in the nation in submitting price sheets in 92.21 per cent of POCSO and rape conditions in 2021.
“Now we have taken a chain of steps with a focused holistic ability so that justice transport is expedited by decreasing the delays in spicy the accused and submitting price-sheets. It’ll have a deterring originate and also do away with scope for witnesses turning hostile,” Rajendranath added.
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