Rape- homicide Sufferer’s Household calls for motion in opposition to wardens

MUMBAI: Following the tragic incident by which an 18-year-old scholar was sexually assaulted and murdered, her father has requested the authorities to file a First Data Report (FIR) in opposition to wardens of the Savitribai Phule Women Hostel, Charni Highway. He claims that they uncared for their obligation in making certain the security and well-being of his daughter.

In keeping with the Akola resident, his daughter was the only real scholar residing on the fourth ground of the hostel, whereas the remaining 21 ladies have been allotted rooms on the decrease flooring. The hostel administration took measures to make sure that not one of the ladies stayed alone in any room.

“Why was my daughter left alone on the fourth ground?” he inquired. He additionally raised doubts about how the safety guard Omprakash Kanojia, who died by suicide following allegations of raping and murdering {the teenager}, managed to entry her room on the fourth ground. Kanojia’s room doesn’t have a direct entrance to the hostel, and through the evening, the interior gates of the hostel are closed. The police are conducting an investigation into the person’s means to achieve entry to the hostel premises and ascend to the fourth ground.

In keeping with data from people within the hostel, it was reported that the warden had requested the sufferer to maneuver to the primary ground. Nonetheless, the sufferer declined the request, stating that she was planning to go to her hometown for summer time trip on June 8. Consequently, she didn’t need to undergo the effort of shifting to a special room for simply a few days. In response to the allegations made by the sufferer’s father in opposition to the wardens, a senior police officer assured them that they might examine the matter completely. 

In keeping with the findings of the police investigation, Kanojia was noticed spending 5 hours and quarter-hour on the fourth ground of the hostel. CCTV footage captured him heading in the direction of the fourth ground shortly after 11:30 PM on Monday and descending at 4:44 AM the next day. Merely 14 minutes after that, he tragically jumped in entrance of a practice at Charni Highway station, leading to his premature demise. It was found that Kanojia had locked the sufferer’s hostel room from the surface, and the important thing was present in his possession when his physique was recovered from the railway observe. 

The sufferer’s father additionally knowledgeable the police that his daughter had confided in him and his spouse about Kanojia’s steady harassment over the previous 15 days. They’d suggested her in opposition to submitting a grievance in opposition to the safety guard, fearing that she would possibly expertise additional harassment if she introduced it to consideration. Moreover, the warden has acknowledged that she was unaware of the reported harassment.

“The completion of her examination marked the top of a chapter, and plans have been in place for her much-awaited summer time trip at house,” the sufferer’s father recounted. “I booked her practice ticket, making certain she would return on June 8,” the grieving father continued. “Little did we anticipate the unfolding of such a heart-wrenching tragedy.” 

Deputy Commissioner of Police Pravin Munde from Zone I acknowledged that primarily based on preliminary findings offered by the docs who carried out the post-mortem, the scholar’s demise resulted from asphyxiation as a consequence of strangulation.

Regardless of their preliminary reluctance to retrieve the physique from JJ Hospital with out the registration of an FIR in opposition to the hostel wardens, the household finally relented late final evening.