NEW DELHI: A court on Tuesday asked the Delhi Police to conclude its investigation into the hit-and-run case where a 20-year-old woman was dragged to death while being trapped under a car on the New Year day, and file a charge sheet on April 1.
Metropolitan Magistrate Sanya Dalal extended the judicial custody of the five accused in the case till April 1. Police arrested Deepak Khanna (26), Amit Khanna (25), Krishan (27), Mithun (26), and Manoj Mittal on January 2.
Noting that the stipulated time of 90 days for the probe agency to file its charge sheet will expire on April 1, the magistrate asked the investigating officer (IO) about the date of its filing. To this, the IO said the charge sheet is under scrutiny and will be filed shortly.
The magistrate then asked the IO to file the charge sheet on April 1 -- the next date of hearing in the case. Section 167 of the Code of Criminal Procedure Code provides for the grant of default bail to an accused if the probe agency fails to conclude the investigation and file the charge sheet within a stipulated period of either 60 or 90 days in a court of competent jurisdiction.
The Delhi Police recently invoked Section 302 (murder) of the IPC, while the matter was initially registered for the offences of culpable homicide not amounting to murder and rash driving on public way. Two other co-accused in the case, Ashutosh Bhardwaj and Ankush, were earlier given bail by the court, while the bail plea of Deepak Khanna was rejected by a sessions court. Anjali Singh (20) was killed in the early hours of the New Year day after her scooter was hit by a car, which dragged her for more than 12kms from Sultanpur to Kanjhawala.
90 days’ time to file charge sheet to expire soon
Noting that the stipulated time of 90 days for the probe agency to file its charge sheet will expire on April 1, the magistrate asked the IO about the date of its filing. To this, the IO said the chargesheet is under scrutiny and will be filed shortly.
