Hathras and Unnao cases solved, now Kolkata case; Know these powerful officers of CBI

New Delhi: Protests are going on across the country over the rape and murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata. The responsibility of investigating this case has been handed over to the CBI. The case will be investigated by two female officers of the CBI. Both these officers have solved many big cases in the past. Sampat Meena, who was involved in the investigation of the Hathras and Unnao rape cases, will be the chief investigating officer of this case. Meena is a 1994 batch Jharkhand cadre IPS officer. Along with her, Seema Pahuja is also associated with this case, who was also a part of the investigation team of the Hathras case.

Sampat Meena will lead a team of 25 officers

Additional Director Sampat Meena will lead a team of 25 officers. Additional Police Commissioner Seema Pahuja will investigate at the ground level. She has been awarded the gold medal twice for excellent investigation between 2007 and 2018. Due to family responsibilities, Seema Pahuja once thought of taking VRS, but the then CBI Director did not allow her to do so.

Himachal’s Gudiya rape case solved

A few years ago, Seema Pahuja solved a case of rape and murder of a minor student in Himachal Pradesh. In 2017, the Gudiya case shook the entire state. A teenager disappeared from a forest path while returning home from school. Her body was found two days later. She was raped and strangled. In 2021, woodcutter Anil Kumar was found guilty in this case and sentenced to life imprisonment. In April 2018, the CBI told the story behind solving this case. They used percentage and genealogical matching through DNA technology. After questioning more than 1000 local people, DNA samples of more than 250 people were taken. In this, the DNA of the father of the accused matched with the forensic sample. The son, who was absconding after getting bail, was later caught.

MLA Kuldeep Sender sentenced in Unnao rape case

Apart from this, this team also got the culprit punished in the 2017 Unnao rape case. BJP leader and local MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar was sentenced to life imprisonment for gang raping a 17-year-old Dalit girl. he/she was later expelled from the party. he/she was also found guilty in the case of the death of the victim’s father in judicial custody and was sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment.

Has also done investigation in Hathras case

The Hathras incident of 2020 made headlines across the country. In this case, four people of the so-called upper caste were accused of assaulting and gang-raping a 19-year-old girl. She died 15 days after the incident at Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi. The anger in this case flared up further when the body of the girl was cremated by the Uttar Pradesh Police and administration without the consent and presence of her family. Three of the four accused in this case have been acquitted. The fourth accused Sandeep Thakur was found guilty of attempted murder and culpable homicide, not rape or murder.

The court had given its verdict based on the discrepancy in the victim’s statement and forensic evidence. The police claimed that there was no evidence of rape and the woman died due to neck injury. The state police was accused of major lapses at every stage of the case. First there was a delay in filing the FIR, then rape was denied and the body was hastily cremated. In view of the public anger, on 3 October 2020, the state government suspended five police officers including the SP.