The Special Court of Session for criminal cases related to MPs and MLAs has said that the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Criminal Investigation Department had delayed recording the statement of the victim by four to five days after she was rescued in the alleged abduction case registered against former Minister H.D. Revanna.
Interestingly, the special court also said that prima facie there is no material to justify the rigorous Section 364-A (Kidnapping for ransom and threat to cause death or hurt, etc.,) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) invoked against Mr. Revanna in terms of the Supreme Court’s interpretation of this provision.
However, the special court said that the ingredients of Section 362 (whoever by force compels, or by any deceitful means induces, any person to go from any place, is said to abduct that person) of the IPC, at best, could be pressed against him.
