Police deny permission for extension of protest by doctors
Kolkata Police have denied permission to a doctors’ association seeking an extension of their protest in the R G Kar rape and murder case.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed a charge sheet against the 16-year-old student, who is accused of killing 7-year- old Pradyuman Thakur at the Ryan International School in Gurgaon last year.
It is being said that the charge sheet includes five thousand pages. Also, as per reports, the agency has given clean chit the conductor who was initially arrested by the police for the crime.
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In January, a sessions court had rejected the bail plea of the accused juvenile.
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Additional Sessions Judge Jasbir Singh Kundu had declined relief to the accused, who is presently under custody.
Pradyuman was found with his throat slit in the school’s washroom on September 8, 2017.
The Gurgaon Police had claimed the crime was committed by a school bus conductor, which was later refuted by the CBI.
The probe agency had claimed the teenager had killed Pradyuman in a bid to get the school closed so that a parent- teacher meeting and an examination could be deferred.
If convicted, the accused will stay in a correctional home till he is 21 years old after which the court can shift him to a jail or grant him bail.
The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 lowers the age of juveniles from 18 years to 16 years for heinous crimes such as rape, murder and dacoity-cum- murder, which warrant at least seven years of imprisonment.
(With PTI inputs)
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