The Delhi High Court Thursday sought the police’s stand in the regular bail petition of Seema Rani Khakha, wife of suspended Delhi government’s Women and Child Development Department officer Premoday Khakha and co-accused in the case in which he has been accused of raping a minor girl for several months and impregnating her.
Seema Rani is accused of administering abortion pills to the minor girl.
A single-judge bench of Justice Jyoti Singh issued notice to the Delhi Police in Seema Rani’s plea, calling for a status report in the matter, and listed it for July 5.
Justice Singh had earlier dismissed the couple’s “default bail” plea on February 26. In their earlier petition, the duo had also sought quashing the sessions court’s cognizance order of November 8, 2023 as well as the charge sheet filed in the case on October 10, 2023.
Their counsel had then argued that due to the allegations raised in the matter, the prosecution should have first conducted a “reproductivity test” by taking Premoday Khakha’s semen sample, since he had claimed that he had undergone a vasectomy in 2005, before filing the charge sheet.
However, the HC, in its February order, had said that the investigating officer had filed an application seeking direction to Premoday Khakha for a semen sample to verify his reproductive capacity. But merely because this “scientific/medical opinion was pending”, the charge sheet cannot be termed as “incomplete”, the HC had underscored.