HC issues notices to Haryana govt, police

The petition said Kaushal was being falsely implicated in the case, and that he was at the Sector 42 stadium in Chandigarh for practice when the alleged rape took place.

The victim had identified Kaushal’s Swift as the car that was used in the crime, and even testified this in her statements recorded before a magistrate. Her mother has already moved the High Court, demanding an independent probe into the case. Hearing her petition, the court had issued notices to the Haryana government and the director general of police, the Panchkula superintendent of police and the station house officer of the Sector 14 police station. The case comes up for hearing on December 16.

The victim was allegedly gangraped and tortured by a group of four people on September 16, at the garage of a Haryana government office in Sector 4, Panchkula.

Plea seeking cancellation of Ahuja’s bail dismissed
A local court has dismissed the application filed by the gangrape victim’s family, seeking cancellation of bail to Aman Ahuja, one of the accused in the case. Additional Sessions Judge Sanjeev Jindal dismissed the application on Tuesday on the plea that the accused had not violated any guidelines of the bail application.

“The application was dismissed as the judge said the ground on which the cancellation of the bail was being demanded was not enough to cancel the bail,” said the public prosecutor. The rape victim had named Aman Ahuja, a resident of Sector 10, Panchkula, as one of the accused who raped her and made a pornographic CD.

He allegedly used the CD later to blackmail her.

Ahuja was arrested a few days after the case was registered by the police on September 16 and was later granted bail by the court. Ahuja is the son of an additional district transport officer in Haryana.