Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 7: Principal Sessions Judge Reasi Kamlesh Pandit has rejected the bail applications of Naresh Kumar and Pankaj Khajuria, who were facing trial in gang rape and abetment to suicide case.
According to the police case, on 24.07.2018 a complaint was lodged mentioning that a girl had left Jammu for her residence in Talwara but did not reach at her residence and she might have been kidnapped.
Accordingly, a case was registered and during investigation it came to the fore that prosecutrix had committed suicide after being gang raped. After culmination of investigation, challan was presented in the court.
While rejecting the bail application, court observed, “the cases of rape, gang rape and digital rape are on increase and perpetrators of this inhuman and brutal crime are worse than even the beasts and deserve to be dealt with a heavy hand”, adding “the entire country is seriously debating this issue and there are proposals coming forth that death penalty should be the answer to deal with the accused involved in such heinous crime”.
“Every case has different facts, some of the recent rape cases have been so horrifying that entire country protested to condemn these barbaric acts and raised a voice to curb the menace by inflicting more severe punishment”, the court said, adding “the Government of India also promptly appointed Justice J S Verma Committee to review laws on crimes against women, which recommended certain drastic changes in the criminal law relating to offences against women and accordingly various amendments have been made in law on the subject”.
“I do not think accused persons deserve discretion of court at this stage. The offences alleged to have been committed by the accused are heinous and have shaken conscious of general public at large”, the court further said, adding “if accused are enlarged on bail , they will definitely try to influence the prosecution evidence and in case any chain is snapped then whole case can go”.
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