Priest, 3 Others Chargesheeted In Minor Dalit Girl's Gangrape & Murder At Delhi Crematorium

The Delhi police filed a charge sheet in a court on Saturday against a crematorium priest and three others for alleged rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl in the Delhi Cantonment area earlier this month.

The 400-page final report named Radhey Shyam, the 55-year-old priest of the crematorium in South-West district, and its employees ¨C Kuldeep Singh, Salim Ahmad and Laxmi Narayan as accused ¨C claiming there was sufficient evidence against them, according to a report by news agency PTI.

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The accused were charged under sections 302 (murder), 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 376D (gang rape), 342 (wrongful confinement), 506 (criminal intimidation), 201 (destruction of evidence) and 34 (common intention) of the IPC.

The four have also been charge-sheeted under Section 6 (aggravated penetrative sexual assault) of the POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act and Section 3 (offences of atrocities) of SC/ST Act.

All the accused are currently in judicial custody.

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The report was filed before Duty Magistrate Manu Shree, who kept it for the consideration of the court concerned for August 31.

On August 5, the case was transferred to the Crime Branch of Delhi police.