Shakti Mills gangrape chargesheet by Sept 19

S Ahmed Ali TNN september 14,2013

Mumbai: The city crime branchwillfile a chargesheet in the Shakti Mills gangrape case of a photojournalist by September 19. The police are alsolikely toconduct an identification parade of three accused in the call centre survivor case on Saturday.
    Sources said joint commissioner of police (crime) HimanshuRoy on Fridayhad a closed door meeting with crime branch officers probing thefirstcaseof gangrape. The police said they had almost completed investigations and were compiling the evidence.
    “CrimebranchinitIIIhas been exempted from Ganpati bandobast and will focus on investigations and wind them up by Monday. But we are not taking chances and have set a September 19 deadline to file the chargesheet,’’ an officer said.
    The police said that they were bound by the deadline as home minister R R Patil had last week announced filing of the chargesheet in 10 days and completion of investigations faster than the Nirbhaya case.
    The crime branch will also conduct the identification parade of accused Salim Ansari, Qasim Bangali and Vijay Jadhav in the call centre employee gangrape case.
    Sources said the three are in the Byculla women’s cell and arrangements have been made for the parade, which willbe presidedover by an executive magistrate.
    “Both cases are very strong andinvestigations are minutely being monitoredby legal experts. We are confident of securing conviction in both cases,’’ Roy said.