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Ready to probe OP Jindal University student's rape case: CBI

Appearing for the CBI before the vacation bench, additional solicitor general Pinky Anand made an oral submission that the agency is ready to take over the investigation if the court passes the order.

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The CBI on Friday informed the Supreme Court that it has no objection to taking over the investigation into the alleged gang-rape of an MBA student of O P Jindal Global University in Sonipat, Haryana.

Appearing for the CBI before the vacation bench, additional solicitor general Pinky Anand made an oral submission that the agency is ready to take over the investigation if the court passes the order.

The premier investigating agency was earlier asked by the bench of justices A K Sikri and U U Lalit to respond to the victim's plea for transfer of probe to CBI.

Granting further time to the Union of India to reply to its notice, the court has said that the Centre was also made a party in the case.

It also granted five days' time to three accused, who are presently lodged in jail, to respond to the notice even as their counsel alleged political influence in the probe of the case.

Meanwhile, Haryana government has filed its status report on the probe conducted by the state police and directed that it be kept in a sealed cover.

Claiming that the probe was carried out in a fair manner and that there was no need for transferring the investigation to CBI, the state police accused the girl of not co-operating in the investigation.

"She has even refused to hand over her mobile phone which is an important piece of information," a lawyer associated with the case told dna.

The court had on May 25 sought CBI's response as the alleged victim had pleaded for taking the probe away from Haryana police for purportedly not carrying it out in a fair manner.

The 21-year old victim had alleged that she was blackmailed by her seniors, who took her nude photographs, and forced her to get into a physical relationship with them.

It was alleged that she was repeatedly raped on the campus and outside by three seniors who had threatened to circulate the pictures in public.

She contended in her plea that police were destroying electronic evidence by deleting content from laptops and mobile phones through which photographs were shared by the accused with other students, and the court should transfer the probe to CBI.

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