Police in Maharashtra's Thane district has filed a charge sheet against all 33 accused, including 4 minors, in the Dombivli gang-rape case, in which a fifteen-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted multiple times over a period of 8 months earlier in 2021.
The police filed the charge sheet in Kalyan sessions court recently, a senior official of Manpada police station in the district, where the case was registered on September 22 this year, said.
On Friday, the Police Official said that "The charge sheet runs into 885 pages & the statements of 122 witnesses have been recorded to make the case watertight".
The charge sheet says that the minor victim was gang-raped by the accused at various locations, including Dombivli, Badlapur, Murbad & Rabale, between Jan 29 & Sept 22, 2021, & that she was also drugged.
Of the total 33 accused, 4 juveniles are presently out on bail, while 29 others are in judicial custody.
The police have booked the accused under the Indian Penal Code sections 376 (rape), 376 (n) (repeated rape), 376 (d) (gang-rape), 376 (3) (rape on a woman under sixteen years of age) & also under provisions of the POCSO Act.
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