Girls drop rape charges against Chhattisgarh cops
November 13th, 2010 - 10:53 pm ICT by IANSRaipur, Nov 13 (IANS) Two days after accusing four policemen of gang rape in a police station complex in Raigarh district, the two ‘victims’ retracted from their earlier statements in a court in Chhattisgarh Saturday.
The girls told a local court at Gharghora town Friday that they were not raped by policemen.
The girls, one of them a minor, belong to a small town Dharmjaigarh where residents were outraged late Thursday by the alleged rape of the girls by four policemen Nov 9.
The girls escorted by dozens of angry local residents registered a first information report (FIR) at Dharmjaigarh police station against the identified four policemen. The town is located in Raigarh district, about 280 km from here.
During the court proceedings Friday, the two refused to identify the accused policement when Rahul Sharma, superintendent of police, Raigarh, produced all policemen who were on duty Nov 9, before the girls for identification.
The girls have also refused to undergo medical tests.
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