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Somnath Bharti: Delhi court to order lodging of fresh FIR tomorrow

New Delhi:  A Delhi court will pronounce tomorrow its order on a plea by another African woman seeking registration of fresh FIR against unknown persons for allegedly molesting her during the recent midnight raid by

PTI Updated on: January 28, 2014 18:46 IST
The FIR was lodged by police on court's direction after an Ugandan woman had approached the court on January 18 seeking to lodge a criminal case against unknown persons.

Later, the second African woman had moved the court seeking registration of a separate FIR alleging she was also molested by the group.

The second woman had claimed that the group had forcibly held her hands and took her out of the house along with her sisters who resides with her.

After the court received the DCP's response, it had asked the advocate to file a written submission by today in response to the reply filed by police on January 25.
"The incident is common but the complainant is also the victim in the incident and she was also molested by few people out of group of 10 and hence the offence on her body was committed separately hence separate FIR is required," Sherawat said in his two page reply before the court.

The advocate further stated that "as per the report of the DCP, the complainant is already examined as a witness in earlier FIR... pertaining to the same incident, hence according to that report, status of the complainant remain as witness not as the victim.

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