Hyderabad, Telangana: To ensure maximum punishment for all the accused in May 28 gang-rape case in Hyderabad, the state police on Thursday said that Hyderabad Police Commissioner CV Anand will be urging the Juvenile Justice Board to consider them as adults and not minors while conducting the trial.
“We will request the Juvenile Justice Board for trial against the Juvenile Conflict with Law (JCLs) as adults but not as minors to ensure they get maximum punishment, once we collect all the evidence against all the six accused including five JCLs in Jubleehills minor gang-rape case,” said Anand.
Telangana IT minister KT Rama Rao (KTR) also took to Twitter to welcome the police’s decision and said: “I welcome and support the stand of @TelanganaCOPs (Telangana Police). If you are adult enough to commit a crime as heinous as rape, one must also be punished as an adult and not as a juvenile.”
The Juvenile court is yet to hear about the pending requisition by police for all the minors in police custody.
Earlier in the day, the Nampally court in Hyderabad had sent Saduddin Malik — one of the accused in said rape case — to three-day police custody from Chanchalguda central prison, till June 11.
He was to be grilled by police before being sent back to the prison.
The police has also requested the Juvenile court to grant police custody for all five accused minors who are currently in the observation home.
These six accused in the rape case were arrested by the police on Tuesday.
Notably, according to the police, the victim had attended the party with her friends at Amnesia and Insomnia Pub in Jubilee Hills on May 28.
