KOLKATA: The Special Investigation Team’s final report in the Madhyamgram gang-rape case says the girl committed suicide.

The report was submitted before Justice Dipankar Datta of Calcutta high court on Wednesday. Bikash Bhattacharya, counsel of the victim’s father, immediately pointed out in court that the report does not mention the girl’s dying declaration, in which she said she was set on fire and had named two accused.

The SIT was headed by special IG-CID Damayanti Sen. Advocate general Bimal Chatterjee submitted that SIT report had found the Madhyamgram rape victim had killed herself. Bhattacharya pointed out that the report also states that the suicide was abetted. He pleaded for all the documents of the case so that he could make a detailed argument but the advocate general opposed this, arguing that under Criminal Procedure Code, the petitioners would get all documents through the magistrate concerned.

Justice Datta then asked Chatterjee if the high court merely had the power to constitute the SIT and not distribute its report to the petitioner. Bhattacharya then argued that the court had the power to issue a direction for the report be served on the petitioner.

In her dying statement, the twice gang-raped girl had said that two men poured kerosene on her and set her on fire in her house.

