A CBI court here today convicted the Himachal Pradesh Inspector General of Police and seven other policemen in the custodial death of an accused in the gang rape and murder of a minor girl in Kotkhai in 2017. The court of special judge Alka Malik will pronounce the sentence on January 27.
IG Zahur Haider Zaidi, then DSP Manoj Joshi, then SI Rajinder Singh, then ASI Deep Chand Sharma, then head constable Mohan Lal, Surat Singh, Rafee Mohammad, and then constable Ranjit Sateta.
SP DW Negi is acquitted, said his counsel Rabindra Pandit.
The accused have been convicted under sections 302 (murder) read with 120-B, 330 (voluntarily causing hurt to extort confession), 348 (wrongful confinement to extract confession), and 195 (giving false evidence) of the IPC, said CBI public prosecutor Amit Jindal.
Zaidi and seven others were arrested in the custodial death case of Suraj who was found dead at Kotkhai police station on July 18, 2017.
