A judicial magistrate on Wednesday recorded the statement of a rape victim, one of the sisters who jumped into sea after they were evicted from Sri Aurobindo Ashram recently.
A day after the five sisters were evicted from the Sri Aurobindo ashram-run apartments, on a Supreme Court order, two of the sisters and their mother ended their lives in an alleged family suicide bid by drowning themselves in the sea.
The father and three other sisters were rescued by fishermen and admitted to the Government General Hospital. One of the surviving sisters alleged that two unknown persons raped her when she was lying on the beach after being washed ashore.
Following a complaint from the victim, police arrested the two persons on Monday last and they were remanded in judicial custody.
Meanwhile, the police filed an application before a judicial magistrate for recording statement of the victim. The judicial magistrate ordered the production of victim before him on Wednesday.
As per the order of the magistrate, the victim was produced before the judicial magistrate and he recorded the statement of victim under Section 164 Criminal Procedure Code(Cr.P.C)
The recording of victim’s statement was done following a direction of Supreme Court, after considering the recurrence of rape across the country, which had ordered fast tracking the procedure for recording statements of the victim and witnesses.
The apex court had said upon receipt of information relating to the commission of offence of rape, the Investigating Officer should make immediate steps to take the victim to any metropolitan/preferably woman judicial magistrate for the purpose of recording her statement under Section 164 Cr.P.C.
