Overview
- - The Supreme Court bench, which issued its order on Friday, told the Uttar Pradesh DGP to form an all-women Special Investigation Team led by a Commissioner or IG-level officer preferably from outside the state and to notify it by 11 pm on Saturday.
- - The trial court was directed to keep proceedings on hold until the SIT files a supplementary report, with the court setting a target of roughly two weeks for the team to finish its probe.
- - The SIT must re-examine the parents’ grievances, investigate alleged denial of care by Khajan Singh Mannvi Health Care and St Joseph (Mariam) Hospital, and put protections in place for key witnesses.
- - During the hearing, the family’s lawyer said police dragged the father to record a statement under Section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, while the state said a chargesheet is filed and the trial had begun.
- - This is the second court-ordered SIT for a four-year-old’s rape case in a month, a step that signals tighter top-court oversight of local investigations into crimes against children.