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6l TUESDAY l JUNE 11 l 2013

Sooraj Pancholiheld for ‘abetting’Jiah Khan suicide

Barasat rape-murder:PIL seeks SIT probe

EXPRESS NEWS SERVICEKOLKATA, JUNE 10

A PIL was on Monday filed intheCalcuttaHighCourt seek-ing intervention in the probeinto the alleged rape andkilling of a college student inBarasat on June 6.

The petition urged thecourt tosetupaSpecial Inves-tigation Team (SIT) to probethe case under the monitoringof the High Court. The casewill come up for hearing onTuesday.

On June 6, the college stu-dent was allegedly raped and

murderedbylocalyouthswhileshe was returning home. Aftertheincident,WestBengalFoodMinister Jyotipriya Mallickwenttothevillagebutprotestinglocals forced him to leave. Theresidents continued their agi-tation for a few days demand-ingpunishmentoftheculprits.

The state government,meanwhile, has handed overtheprobeto theCID.ThePILsought an order to stop theCID investigation.

Meanwhile, residents ofKamdunivillagehit thestreetson Monday to protest againstthe alleged rape-murder.

Panchayat rejected same-gotramarriage of Basant with Sarita

VARINDER BHATIACHANDIGARH, JUNE 10

RIGID social dogmas like theone which says a man andwoman of the same clan (go-tra) should not marry eachother seems to have pusheddismissed Chandigarh policeconstable Basant Kumar on akilling spree and his girlfriendSarita Rani to be part of theconspiracy.

In fact, Sarita, prior to be-ing Basant’s girlfriend, was hiswife.BothofthemarefromthesameclanintheJatcommunityfromGarorvillageinSonepat.They had eloped and got mar-ried on February 3 at an AryaSamajtemple inAmbala.

But soon the couple’sfamilies found them andbrought them back to village.The panchayat reprimandedthem for marrying from thesame clan. They nullified themarriage, called for the cou-ple’s separation and for-malised it throughadivorce ina Sonepat court.

In the time between theirmarriageanddivorce, thecou-ple had sought police protec-tion fearing threat to theirlives fromtheir families.Saritahad even sent a letter toKharkhodapolicestationstat-ing that they married eachotherof theirownvolitionandneed police protection. Butthe police never acted on it.

After the divorce, Sarita’smaternal uncle fixed her mar-riage with Sandeep ofDeepalpur village, Sonepat.Her second marriage infuri-ated Basant. Sarita’s phonerecordsreveal that shemadealast call to Basant three daysbefore her marriage on April15. She told him her uncle wasforcibly getting her married.

SHO Sonepat SultanSingh said Sarita could notcontact Basant after marriageas she did not have a phone.“She became the conspiratorin the murder of Sandeep andhismotherRoshniDevias shehad already informed Basantabout her marriage,” he said.

Singh said Sarita’s father,Rohtash, did not attend thewedding.“Heruncleallegedlydeceived Sandeep’s familyclaiming he had raised Saritasince she was two,” he said.

Basant’s father, Rajbir,confirmed that the panchayathad ordered their separation.“Theycommittedamistakeofgetting married violating clannorms. Both should have be-havedlikeabrotherandsister.The crimes they committedweretheirownact,”hesaid.

Rohtash said he never ac-knowledged both her mar-riages. “For me she died theday she eloped with Basant.The panchayat and our com-munity had already orderedoursocialboycott,”hesaid.

MEGHA SOODMUMBAI, JUNE 10

THE Juhu police Mon-day evening arrestedSooraj Pancholi, son

of actors Aditya Pancholi andZarina Wahab, for allegedlyabetting the suicide of actorJiahKhan.Thearrestcameaf-ter her mother, Rabiya Amin,submitted a six-page letter,purportedly written by Jiah,detailing the “difficult rela-tionship” between Jiah andSooraj.

Jiah, 25, hanged herselffrom a ceiling fan at her Juhuapartment on June 3. The lastconversation Jiah had waswith Sooraj at 10.53 pm thatday. Juhu police had recordedSooraj’s statement on June 4.

Rabiya said the familyfound the letter in Jiah’s wal-let in her room two days aftershe died. The letter states thatJiah was beaten up and forcedto abort.

“The arrest is based onRabiya’s complaint and herstatement,” said CherringDorje, DCP (Zone 9). Headded that the letter would betreated as evidence, thoughthere was no mention of the

name‘Sooraj’ anywhere in theletter.

The police initially de-tained Sooraj for over 90minutes and questioned himover the contents of the let-ter. “He has admitted to theabortion and confessed thathe hurt her physically. We ar-rested him after question-ing,” said an officer.

Sooraj said he had beenavoiding Jiah for over twomonths, but could not after apoint as she was very emo-tional, an officer said.

Rabiya on Monday toldthe police that Sooraj hadphysically and mentally tor-

tured Jiah. She said AdityaPancholi was against the af-fair, as Jiah was older thanSooraj.

“When Jiah came to Lon-don for her birthday a fewmonths ago, she had bruiseson her face. I asked her aboutit and she told me she was inlove with Sooraj. I called hersisters to the room and shebroke down,” said Rabiya.“Sheoncetoldme: ‘Heabusesme, hits me, doesn’t respectme and embarrasses me infront of his friends’. I askedher to walk out of the abusiverelationship and stop talkingto him,” she added.

Rabiya rubbished reportsthat Jiah was depressed. “Shehad no work-related prob-lems and was happy. She hadasked me to attend a film fes-tival with her when she cameto London. She had signed anEnglish film recently,” Ra-biya said.

Meanwhile, the police areawaiting the handwritinganalysis report of the letter toascertain whether its authorwas Jiah. “We will presentSooraj before court on Tues-day,”saidArunBhagat, seniorinspector.

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Haryana panchayat move to nullify his marriage with Saritaand her second wedding infuriated the dismissed constable

Basant and Sarita

SOORAJ PANCHOLI