Overview

• An undercover operation at a Meerut Kanwar camp led to the arrest of three additional suspects, raising the total in custody to ten.
• Post-mortem and forensic reports confirming 24 stab wounds and blunt force trauma resulted in adding Section 6 of the POCSO Act for aggravated penetrative sexual assault.
• Investigators recovered mobile phone videos showing degrading treatment and extreme violence, bolstering the prosecution’s case.
• A case under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections 103(1) for murder and 238(b) for causing disappearance of evidence has been registered at Samaypur Badli Police Station.
• Police plan to petition the court to try accused minors over 16 as adults given the premeditated nature and severity of the crime.