Rape accused arrested after five-year hunt
Jammu/Srinagar: A rape accused was arrested from Srinagar district on Wednesday after a five-year hunt, police said.
Sartaj Aziz, a resident of Bagga village of Mahore in Reasi district, was on the run for the last five years after jumping bail in a case related to the abduction and rape of a woman in 2012, a police official said.
He said the charge sheet against the accused was filed in the court of law in Reasi on April 10, 2012, but the accused evaded trial to escape conviction by jumping the bail.
On June 2, the court issued non-bailable warrants to arrest him but he could not be traced for the last five years, the official said.
He said Reasi police developed a specific input and finally arrested him from Batmaloo area of Srinagar.
The official said the accused is the tenth absconder arrested by Reasi police in the last one month.
Meanwhile, police said that they arrested an accused, allegedly involved in raping a minor girl, within an hour after receiving a complaint in South Kashmir’s Kulgam district.
In a statement a spokesperson said that a girl (Name withheld) aged about 14 years along with her father approached the Police Station Devsar with a written complaint stating that on May 12, she was on way towards her orchard and in the mean time one person namely, Mudasir Ahmad Lone son of Mushtaq Ahmad Lone, a resident of Dardgund wrongfully restrained her and forcibly raped her.
The spokesperson said that thereafter the accused had threatened her not to disclose the incident to anyone.
“Acting promptly upon the complaint, a case FIR No. 28/2021 U/S 341, 376, 506 IPC, 4 POCSO Act was registered in police station Devsar and investigation was taken up instantly,” he said.
He said that on a tip off, Police party from Police Station Devsar led by SHO Devsar Inspector Jazib Mohammad under the supervision of DySP PC Kulgam Azhar Rashid was constituted to nab the accused.
“Utilising all available means and with strenuous efforts, investigating team arrested the accused within one hour after complaint was received,” the spokesperson said. (with PTI inputs)
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