Saturday, 22 February 2014

All five accused in gang-rape of telephone operator deny charges

All five accused in gang-rape of telephone operator deny charges
Two women were gang-raped in a span of a week inside the Shakti Mills compound
All the five accused in the July 31 Shakti Mill gang-rape case, in which a telephone operator was the victim,denied the charges against them before a sessions court on Friday. 

"The court recorded the statements of the accused under section 313 of Criminal Procedure Code," said special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam. 

Section 313 provides the accused person an opportunity to explain the circumstances and to refute the allegations. 

Principal Sessions Judge Shalini Phansalkar-Joshi, who recorded the statements of the accused in an in-camera hearing, put as many as 496 questions to them. 

"The accused denied all the allegations against them," Nikam later told reporters. 

The police had arrested Mohammed Ashfaq Sheikh, Mohamed Kasim Hafiz Sheikh alias Kasim Bangali, Salim Ansari, Vijay Jadhav and a minor for the gang-rape of the 18-yearold telephone operator on July 31 last year. The minor's case has been separated. 

A journalist intern with a magazine was also gang-raped in the same premises a few days later when she had gone there with a male colleague on an assignment. Vijay Jadhav, Kasim Bengali,Salim Ansari and Siraj Rehman are accused in this case, along with another minor, whose case has been separated.

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