Woman SI deposes in sexual assault case
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, May 27 2017:
A woman Sub-Inspector of Imphal West women police station deposed before Special Judge POCSO Imphal West yesterday in connection with a case registered against sexual assault on a minor girl by a 40-year-old man.
The woman SI identified as Hoineikim Misao is the Investigation Officer and prosecution witness number 12 of the case.
The accused has been identified as RK Achouba @ Tiken (40) s/o (L) Herasana of Moirangkhom Loklaobung.
The Investigation Officer submitted before the Court that she was posted at Imphal police station during the time of the incident and that on June 7, 2014, the mother of the victim girl filed a complaint to the OC Imphal police station accusing RK Achouba of sexually assaulting her daughter at around 4.30 pm the previous day at his residence.
The 10 further stated that medical examination of the victim was carried out at RIMS Forensic Medicine Centre at around 10 am and she along with a police team went to the residence of the accused at around 3.10 pm the same day but the accused was nowhere to be found.
She mentioned that she seized some material produced by the complainant in the presence of some seizure witnesses and also prepared a seizure memo and interrogated six witnesses in connection with the case.
Later on the same day, she along with the police team went again to the house of the accused at around 5 .25 pm and were able to arrest him.
She mentioned that the accused was produced before Duty Magistrate the next day and took five days police custody remand during which the accused was interrogated and finally admitted to the offence charged against him.