Rape of CCET girl: Police summon rights lawyer

TNN / Mar 21, 2006, 02:26 IST

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Police have issued summons to a city-based human rights lawyer, Arvind Thakur, in the kidnapping and rape of a CCET girl by a neighbour.

Rape of CCET girl: Police summon rights lawyer

CHANDIGARH: Chandigarh police have issued summons to a city-based human rights lawyer, Arvind Thakur, in the much-publicised kidnapping and rape of a CCET girl by a neighbour in the first week of March.
Investigations have revealed that the girl had changed her statement to say that she had wilfully gone with the boy.
Thakur has been called by police to clear his stand about instigating the girl to make false statements of abduction and rape as alleged by the girl's father in the court.
Initially, the girl and her father had alleged that their neighbours had kidnapped her and repeatedly raped her at an unidentified location in Punjab.

But later, it was established that the girl had run away from home with her boyfriend and had stayed in his village in Batala.
They had further alleged that Thakur had instigated the girl to make a false statement before the police. Speaking to Times of Chandigarh, Sector 36 SHO, Ishwar Singh Maan said they have called Thakur to the police station by 4.00 pm on Wednesday asking him to clear his position in the controversial case.

Maan said the girl's father had stated before the court that it was Thakur who influenced his daughter to make the initial police statement of kidnapping and rape by her boyfriend's aunt and her sons. When contacted, Thakur alleged that this was a ploy of Chandigarh police to frame him in the case.
"I have got with me the written statements of both the girl and her father, Baldev Raj, initially alleging the girl's kidnapping and rape by five persons. In fact, I have already served a defamation notice to the girl and her father last week," Thakur said.

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