The special POCSO court in Mainpuri granted permission to UP police’s SIT to conduct narcotic analysis of UP cabinet minister Ram Naresh Agnihotri’s son, Ankur, in connection with the death of a 16-year-old girl, who was allegedly raped and found hanging in a prayer room in the premises of her residential school in 2019.
AGRA: The special POCSO court in Mainpuri granted permission to UP police’s SIT to conduct narcotic analysis of UP cabinet minister Ram Naresh Agnihotri’s son, Ankur, in connection with the death of a 16-year-old girl, who was allegedly raped and found hanging in a prayer room in the premises of her residential school in 2019.
On Thursday, the court allowed the application, filed by the special investigation team (SIT) probing the death of the girl in the school three years ago. Ankur Agnihotri’s narcotic test will be conducted within a month, said special public prosecutor (POCSO) Anoop Yadav.
Last year in September, blood samples of nearly 300 suspects including that of a cabinet minister’s son were collected for DNA test after a new SIT was constituted following the Allahabad high court’s direction to the state government and UP police to submit a progress report on the case within a month.
The court had also directed the DGP to closely monitor the progress of the probe so that “it may be taken to its logical conclusions” as the investigation of the three-member SIT constituted earlier had remained inconclusive.
The UP government had suspended three police officers after the high court’s observation.
On February 1 this year, SIT had filed a chargesheet of over 2,000 pages against the former principal of a Mainpuri residential school, Sushma Sagar in the court of Additional District Judge (POCSO) Poonam under sections 306 (Abetment of suicide), 201 (Causing disappearance of evidence of an offence committed, or giving false information) of IPC and under sections 19/21 of POCSO Act.
The victim’s family had approached high court in August 2020, alleged they were not informed of the girl’s death and came to know of it when the school authorities took her body to a hospital and one of their relatives, who was present there identified the girl and called up the parents.
Then, the FIR was filed against the then school principal, Sushma Sagar, hostel warden and a fellow student under POCSO Act and sections 376 (rape) and 302 (murder) based on the family’s complaint.
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