Plea to add kidnapping, other charges
The case, which was being probed by a
Special Investigation Team
(SIT), has been handed to the detective department.
The public prosecutor, Sourin Ghosal, on Tuesday filed an application in court, seeking to amend five new sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. These are BNS sections 118(1), (causing grievous hurt with dangerous weapons or means), 351(3) (criminal intimidation), 140(3) (kidnapping), 140 (4) (kidnapping in order to murder) and 142 (wrongful confinement). Several of them are non-bailable.
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Sources said the police might in future further add cases under the IT Act, 2000, against the three accused.
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