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Mumbai gang-rape: 4 accused sent to judicial custody till September 19

Mumbai: Four accused in the 23-year-old photojournalist gang-rape case were on Thursday remanded in judicial custody till September 19 by a magistrate court here. Magistrate U M Padwad sent all the four culprits--Shiraz Rehman Khan,



On August 27, teams from Central Forensic Science Laboratory, Delhi, and Gujarat Forensic Science Laboratory, had scoured the crime scene at Shakti Mills Compound here for nearly three hours looking for evidence to build a water-tight case against the accused.



The team from Gujarat included two psychiatrists who conducted a Layered Voice Analysis (LVA) on the accused. Its a technique designed for truth verification and deceit detection. Later, forensic tests confirmed that DNA samples found on the victim matched with those of the suspects.

The investigators have slapped three more Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections-- 377 (Unnatural offence) , 201 (Causing disappearance of evidence of offence) and 120 (B) (criminal conspiracy) against the accused.

The five accused had been earlier booked under various sections of IPC including 376(D) (rape), 342 (wrongful confinement), 506(2) (criminal intimidation) and 34 (common intention to commit an offence).

The young scribe was sexually assaulted at defunct and deserted Shakti Mills compound in Parel area on the evening of August 22 when she had gone there on assignment with a male colleague.

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