Badaun case: CBI submits evidences before court

The CBI today submitted evidences in a POCSO court today to corroborate its "closure report" that the two teenaged cousins found hanging from a tree were not raped or murdered.
The agency sumbitted 91 page file before the court of additional district judge (POCSO Act) Anil Kumar and to the victims' side, counsel for the complainant, Gyan Singh Shakya said.
The file contains 34 page closure report, two pages each of the post mortem examination of both the girls, four pages containing the list of witnesses, while the remaining pages have statements of the witnesses, DNA, forensic and status reports among others, he said.

The court has fixed February 11 as the next date for hearing.
CBI had filed the closure report on December 11 last year claiming that the girls had committed suicide.
The agency had filed its report saying there was no forensic or circumstantial evidence suggesting rape and murder as alleged in the FIR registered by Uttar Pradesh Police after the girls' bodies were found hanging from a tree in Katra village on May 28 last year.

The CBI had said the two committed suicide fearing retribution as the elder girl's affair with a local boy from a different caste had come to light.

The girls' families had alleged that they were kidnapped and murdered by five youths from the village. The incident sparked an outcry in the country and abroad with questions being raised over the law and order situation.
The agency had closed the investigation after dropping charges against five persons - Pappu, Awadhesh and Urvesh Yadav (brothers) and constables Chhatrapal Yadav and Sarvesh Yadav - named as prime accused by the state police for the alleged rape and murder of the girls.