Goa: After 9 years, CBI arrests man for rape, only to find fingerprints don’t match

Times of India | 5 hours ago | 20-09-2022 | 08:28 am

PANAJI: After over nine years, the CBI had managed to identify and arrest a person as a suspect in the Mormugao minor girl rape case, but his fingerprints did not match the ones picked from the crime scene. Later, he was granted bail by a local court. On January 14, 2013, a seven-year-old girl was raped in her school toilet in Mormugao taluka. After the suspect, based on a sketch, was not traceable, a CBI team went to West Bengal and arrested him. The suspect was a native of Murshidabad, West Bengal, and was living in Goa. Sources said that the arrested suspect's fingerprints did not match that of the accused. Earlier, Goa police and the CBI released three different sketches of the accused, but could not trace him. After no breakthrough, the CBI had approached the judicial magistrate first class (JFMC), Vasco, in 2017 seeking permission to close the case. But the survivor's parents objected to the closure and the CBI had to restart the investigations. The CBI had carried out DNA tests on over 14 suspects and put eight suspects through the lie detection test. It also did fingerprint matching of nine suspects, but did not get favourable results, and had filed the closure report. It was transferred to Goa police’s crime branch on the same day. In May 2013, an NGO demanded that the case be handed over to the CBI, as the local crime branch had failed to make any detection. Agreeing to the demand, the state government accorded consent and after the Union home ministry issued a notification transferring the case, the CBI took over the case in September 2013. In its closure report, the CBI had said that the culprit was not traceable despite all efforts. The CBI had conducted polygraph tests on two persons suspected to have known the accused in the rape case. The CBI officials especially flew down from Delhi and conducted the lie detection test on these two persons at the CBI’s Bambolim office. (The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault)

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