: A Delhi court on Thursday remanded Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student Anmol Ratan in 14-day judicial custody in a case of allegedly drugging and raping a 28-year-old research scholar in his hostel room on the campus last week.
The court sent him to judicial custody till September 7 as the Delhi Police did not seek his police remand.
The court also directed the Tihar Jail authorities to provide him medical facilities after his counsel submitted that he was suffering from a heart ailment.
Request turned down
Additional Sessions Judge Amit Bansal had on Tuesday refused to give him protection from arrest.
He had sought the protection when the Judge refused to take up his anticipatory bail application for hearing immediately.
Later, Anmol had surrendered at the Vasant Kunj (North) police station on Wednesday night.
He had been evading arrest since the case had been lodged against him.
Earlier, several teams had visited the university campus as well as raided several hideouts in Delhi-NCR in a bid to nab him.
Statement recorded
Meanwhile, another Metropolitan Magistrate at the Patiala House courts has recorded the statement of the victim under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code. The statement is important as it is admissible as evidence in the trial.
Politics at play?
While seeking anticipatory bail, the accused had alleged that the case against him was politically motivated.
There were ideological differences between the accused and the victim, the application said.
The victim, a Ph.D. student, said in her complaint that she had enquired through a post on Facebook whether anyone had had a copy of Marathi film Sairat as she had wanted to see it.
The accused had messaged her that he had had a copy of it.
The case
On the day of the incident, Anmol picked her from her hostel on the pretext of providing the film and took her to his Brahmaputra Hostel room where he offered her some drink. Thereafter committed sexual assault on her, the victim had alleged in her complaint.
The accused had initially illegally confined the victim and threatened her against revealing the incident to anyone.
The next day, she had lodged a complaint at the Vasant Kunj (North) police station.
Ratan had allegedly confined the victim and threatened her against revealing the incident to anyone
