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New Delhi, April 17
The Uttar Pradesh police has removed senior IPS officer and Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Varuna Zone Chandra Kant Meena from the case of gang-rape of a 19-year-old girl by 23 people in Varanasi.
The Varanasi police arrested 13 accused in the case - six men on April 7, three on the intervening night on April 7-8, three more on April 11 and one on April 13.
The action was followed after the intervention of Prime Minister Modi during his 50th visit to his parliamentary constituency, Varanasi, on April 11.
The PM questioned the senior district administration and police authorities of Varanasi about the gang rape incident and the action taken against the culprits.
IG (Personnel), UttarPradesh Police Headquarters, issued the letter ordering the removal of 2018-batch IPS officer Chandra Kant Meena from the post of DCP, Varuna zone in Varanasi and posting him to the office of Director General of Police (DGP) in Lucknow.
As per the case details, 19-year-old girl who went missing on March 29 and was found by police on April 4. Following a complaint lodged by the girl's mother on April 6, a gangrape case was registered against 23 accused — 11 identified and 12 unidentified people.
The girl had gone missing after a friend took her to a hookah bar in the Pishachmochan area of Varanasi on March 29.
Meanwhile, the victim has tested Hepatitis B positive, revealed a medical test conducted at the district hospital in Varanasi, where she was admitted on after a complaint of stomach-ache, weakness and loss of appetite.
Based on the complaint, an FIR was registered under sections 70(1) (gang rape), 123 (administering poisonous substance) 127 (2) (wrongful confinement), 126 (2) (obstructing movement), 351 (2) (criminal intimidation) and 74 (outraging modesty) of the BNS (Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita) against 23 men.
The police constituted three teams to arrest the accused.
The investigators had raided 50 locations and scanned around 100 CCTV footage in search of the accused.
