Badaun: Court asks CBI to file evidence in two days

With the CBI failed to submit evidences along with case diary in the alleged rape and murder case of Badaun cousins, a POCSO court here today ordered it to submit them within two days.
Additional district judge (POCSO Act) Anil Kumar, ordered the CBI to provide the evidence, on the basis of which it had filed the closure report, to the victims' side as well as the court, counsel of the victims, Kokab Hasan Naqvi said.
The court also ordered the victims' side to sumbit their protest within seven days after getting the evidence, he said, adding that February 11 has been fixed as the next date of hearing.

The court after hearing both the sides yesterday had reserved its judgement for today.
CBI was to submit evidences along with case diary to corroborate its "closure report" yesterday.
Naqvi had stated in court that it seems that CBI did not have any evidence in the case after three hearings and it was trying to save itself.

CBI's counsel Rajat Kumar had however said that the agency had all the evidences on the basis of which a closure report was filed on December 11 last year, in which it was claimed 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 May.

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 bodies of the two cousins, both around 14 years, were found hanging in an orchard on May 28 last year. 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.
CBI 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.