Following its claims on Saturday that eight of the 11 people belonging to a neighbouring Thakur family and named in the FIR had been arrested, the police now claim that a 23-year-old Dalit youth is guilty of the murders.
23-year-old Pawan Saroj has been arrested by the UP police on the basis of alleged harassment of one of the victims via Whatsapp. Photo: Twitter/ PremPrakashIPS
New Delhi: Following the suspension of two police officers for allegedly colluding with the accused in the murder case of a Dalit family in UP’s Prayagraj, the UP police on Sunday, November 28 issued a statement saying that they have now arrested a youth who “belonged to the same community as the deceased,” the Indian Express reported.
Of the 11 people from an upper-caste Thakur family named in the FIR and charged under various IPC sections, the SC/ST Act and the POCSO Act, the UP police had earlier claimed that eight of them had already been arrested.
Additional director general of police (ADG), Prayagraj, Prem Prakash on Sunday tweeted that one Pawan Saroj (23) had been arrested and was being interrogated by the police for harassing the daughter of the family. The daughter, earlier reported as being a minor, was believed to have been raped before she and her family were murdered.
ADG Prakash, in a subsequent tweet also noted that the girl was not, in fact, a minor and that she had graduated college. He noted that the charges under the POCSO Act had been removed from the case.
Additional director general of police (ADG), Prayagraj, Prem Prakash on Sunday tweeted that one Pawan Saroj (23) had been arrested and was being interrogated by the police for harassing the daughter of the family. The daughter, earlier reported as being a minor, was believed to have been raped before she and her family were murdered.
ADG Prakash, in a subsequent tweet also noted that the girl was not, in fact, a minor and that she had graduated college. He noted that the charges under the POCSO Act had been removed from the case.
थाना फ़ाफ़ामऊ #प्रयागराज में हुई सामूहिक हत्या व दुष्कर्म के मामले में मृतक युवती को WhatsApp मेसिज द्वारा परेशान करने व लड़की द्वारा #Ihateyou का अंतिम मेसिज पवन सरोज को भेजा गया के आधार पर @prayagraj_pol द्वारा पूछताछ की जा रही है। @Uppolice pic.twitter.com/7MXW0GddBI
— Prem Prakash IPS (@PremPrakashIPS) November 28, 2021
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ADG Prakash, while holding Saroj responsible, noted that a “small dispute” was found to have happened with the 11 people named in the FIR initially but that there was “no evidence” to show that they had murdered the family.
However, on Saturday, Prayagraj deputy inspector general of police (DIG) Sarvashresht Tripathi has said that eight of the 11 named in the FIR had been arrested and that, “The remaining two are in Mumbai, and teams have been deployed to trace and arrest them. One accused is admitted in a hospital and is not able to walk. We will question him as well. We will probe the case from all possible angles.”
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