HP:Ex-SP sent to 3-day judicial remand in custodial death case

A special court today sent former Superintendent of Police (SP) of Shimla D W Negi to three-day judicial custody on the completion of his CBI remand in the case of custodial death of an accused in the rape-and-murder of a teenage girl in Kotkhai in Himachal Pradesh.
The CBI arrested Negi on November 16. He was produced in the court after his extended CBI remand expired.
The court fixed the next hearing on November 23, when all the nine policemen arrested in the case will be produced in the court.
The CBI earlier arrested Inspector General of Police (IGP) Z H Zaidi, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Manoj Joshi and six other policemen in the case.

The CBI registered two cases on the direction of the Himachal Pradesh High Court in July this year to probe the rape-and-murder of the 16-year-old girl and the second related to the custodial death of an accused, Suraj Singh, arrested by the Himachal Pradesh Police.
The high court is monitoring both the cases and directed the CBI to file the charge sheet in the custodial death case by November 30.

Zaidi, the then Theog DSP Joshi, the then Station House Officer of Kotkhai, one Assistant Sub-Inspector, three head constables and one constable were arrested by the CBI on August 29.

Suraj Singh, an accused in the rape-and-murder case, was killed allegedly by another accused in the case at Kotkhai police station on the intervening night of July 18 and 19, triggering a massive public outrage.
Suraj Singh, a 29-year-old labourer from Nepal, was among six people arrested by the local police.
The remaining five accused in the rape-and-murder case have been released on bail as the CBI failed to file the charge sheet within 90 days.
Zaidi was heading a Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the case of rape-and-murder of the minor school girl in Kotkhai area of Shimla in early July.

The case was later transferred to the CBI on the orders of the Himachal Pradesh High Court.
The Class X student had gone missing on July 4 and her naked body was recovered from Haliala forests in Kotkhai on July 6.