Overview
- Judge Alka Bansal of Special POCSO Court No. 3 ruled that available material and the victim’s statement do not indicate false implication.
- An FIR at Jaipur’s Sanganer Sadar police station alleges grooming, blackmail, and repeated assaults over roughly two-and-a-half years, including at hotels in Jaipur and Kanpur.
- Police say they have recovered chats, photos, videos, call records, and hotel booking details that are being treated as key evidence under the POCSO Act.
- Dayal’s lawyer contends meetings occurred only in public, says the complainant presented herself as an adult, and links a related Ghaziabad case to an alleged extortion plot.
- UPCA suspended Dayal from the UP T20 League, RCB retained him for IPL 2026 to criticism, and multiple reports note he could miss the season depending on the case’s progress.