MUMBAI: Following the tragic incident wherein an 18-year-old pupil was sexually assaulted and murdered, her father has requested the authorities to file a First Data Report (FIR) in opposition to wardens of the Savitribai Phule Ladies Hostel, Charni Highway. He claims that they uncared for their obligation in making certain the protection and well-being of his daughter.
In accordance with the Akola resident, his daughter was the only pupil residing on the fourth ground of the hostel, whereas the remaining 21 women have been allotted rooms on the decrease flooring. The hostel administration took measures to make sure that not one of the women stayed alone in any room.
“Why was my daughter left alone on the fourth ground?” he inquired. He additionally raised doubts about how the safety guard Omprakash Kanojia, who died by suicide following allegations of raping and murdering {the teenager}, managed to entry her room on the fourth ground. Kanojia’s room doesn’t have a direct entrance to the hostel, and throughout the night time, the inner gates of the hostel are closed. The police are conducting an investigation into the person’s capability to realize entry to the hostel premises and ascend to the fourth ground.
In accordance with data from people within the hostel, it was reported that the warden had requested the sufferer to maneuver to the primary ground. Nevertheless, the sufferer declined the request, stating that she was planning to go to her hometown for summer time trip on June 8. Because of this, she didn’t wish to undergo the effort of shifting to a unique room for simply a few days. In response to the allegations made by the sufferer’s father in opposition to the wardens, a senior police officer assured them that they might examine the matter totally.
In accordance with the findings of the police investigation, Kanojia was noticed spending 5 hours and quarter-hour on the fourth ground of the hostel. CCTV footage captured him heading in the direction of the fourth ground shortly after 11:30 PM on Monday and descending at 4:44 AM the next day. Merely 14 minutes after that, he tragically jumped in entrance of a prepare at Charni Highway station, leading to his premature demise. It was found that Kanojia had locked the sufferer’s hostel room from the skin, and the important thing was present in his possession when his physique was recovered from the railway monitor.
The sufferer’s father additionally knowledgeable the police that his daughter had confided in him and his spouse about Kanojia’s steady harassment over the previous 15 days. That they had suggested her in opposition to submitting a grievance in opposition to the safety guard, fearing that she may expertise additional harassment if she introduced it to consideration. Moreover, the warden has acknowledged that she was unaware of the reported harassment.
“The completion of her examination marked the tip of a chapter, and plans have been in place for her much-awaited summer time trip at dwelling,” the sufferer’s father recounted. “I booked her prepare ticket, making certain she would return on June 8,” the grieving father continued. “Little did we anticipate the unfolding of such a heart-wrenching tragedy.”
Deputy Commissioner of Police Pravin Munde from Zone I acknowledged that based mostly on preliminary findings supplied by the docs who carried out the post-mortem, the coed’s demise resulted from asphyxiation as a result of strangulation.
Regardless of their preliminary reluctance to retrieve the physique from JJ Hospital with out the registration of an FIR in opposition to the hostel wardens, the household ultimately relented late final night time.