Autopsy hinting rape ignored, Bombay HC asks CBI to probe 2010 death | India News

Mumbai: The Bombay HC recently transferred to the CBI a probe into a 2010 accidental death case of a 13-year-old schoolgirl, saying police did not consider the autopsy report that said in the last 24 hours before her death, she was subjected to sexual intercourse. Police relied on an incomplete video recording and statement of doctors who had not seen the postmortem, HC said. It found “too many loose ends” in the death of the girl, and said cops “did not even consider the serious possibility of the offence being rape with murder”. School had taken students for a camp near Tungareshwar forest. They were playing in a stream and a teacher asked them to come out as the flow got stronger. All except the girl got out. She was carried away, said prosecution, and later her unclothed body was found. “No probe was carried out from that angle at all. Not finding clothes on the body was also an important aspect which needed to be probed seriously,” said a division bench of Justices Sarang Kotwal and Sandesh Patil, in a Feb 10 order.