CBI seeks court nod to go ahead with photocopies as original file goes missing

It can be called the saddest day for those who sacrificed their lives for a separate Uttarakhand state because the CBI, which is probing the shootout at Rampur Tiraha in Muzaffarnagar, has told the court that the documents, including the charge sheet and the original copy of the FIR, have gone missing.

- ASHISH SINHA

The CBI has requested the court to consider the photocopy as the original document and allow proceedings.

The premier investigating agency has informed a court here that original documents, including the charge sheet and FIR relating to the 1994 Rampur Tiraha firing case, are missing and sought permission to proceed with the photocopies.

The case relates to police firing on Uttarakhand state agitators at Rampur Tiraha in Muzaffarnagar district on the midnight of 1 and 2 October, 1994.

It is alleged that seven agitators were killed in the police firing and policemen raped the agitating women. The CBI had filed separate charge sheets in this case.

Nineteen former policemen are facing trial under IPC sections 376D (gang rape), 554 (sexual harassment) and 492 (breach of contract to serve at a remote place).