SRINAGAR: The district and sessions court in Shopian on Friday turned down the bail plea of a local resident accused of abduction and rape.
Javed Ahmad Rathar of Kanjiwular Shopian is accused of abducting a neighbourhood girl at gun point with the help of three accomplices and subjecting her to a criminal assault last November.
Her uncle had filed a police report on November 11, and the next day the girl was found unconscious in another part of the town, bereft of clothing.
On medical examination, doctors had confirmed rape.
Rathar, who had been named by the victim in her statement to the police, was arrested in subsequent raids, but his three accomplices remained untraced.
According to the victim, she had been attacked with pepper spray when stepping out of the bathroom outside her home late in the evening, and bundled into a car with four occupants, three of them carrying weapons.
In her statement she said that abductors had taken her to some unknown location, beaten her up brutally, and then one of them had subjected her to a criminal assault.
In a recent hearing, the district and sessions judge in Shopian rejected the defence plea that the victims family had levelled false allegations on Rathar because of a long- standing clan feud.
In his ruling, the judge said that if released on bail, the accused could intimidate witnesses and the victims family with the help of armed persons the like of whom he had used in the abduction.
The accused is directly involved in a serious crime, and the police is directed to apprehend the other accomplices so that exemplary punishment acts as a deterrent for those contemplating such heinous acts, the judge said.
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