JUDGEMENT
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(1.) This application has been filed
for quashing of the cognizance taken by the
learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bokaro
in connection with Chandankiyari P. S. Case
No. 95/2003 (corresponding to G. R. No.
927/2003) under Sections 370, 372,
373,376/34 of the Indian Penal Code.
(2.) The prosecution case, in short, as
revealed from the First Information Report
lodged by one Nepal Bauri, the father of the
O.P. No. 3, is that along with his coneighbours
Yadav Singh and Raju Bouri
came to Amlabad Out Post alleging that on
the last day of Durga Puja in the year 2003
the co-villagers of the informant namely,
Sripati Thakur and Ajit Thakur lured away
the O.P. No. 3, Malti Kumari, the minor
daughter of O.P. No. 2 and took her away
from her house by assuring the informant,
that she will be properly employed.
Thereafter, the said villagers went to
Sudamdih and kept the daughter of the
informant confined in the house of the
petitioner herein for performing household
work. Subsequently, the informant went to
Sudamdih to bring his daughter home and
he was allowed to do so for a day. On coming
home, Malti Kumari refused to go back to
the house of the petitioner and informed her
mother that the petitioner had tried to rape
her. During course of investigation Malti
Kumari and the informant alleged that on
commission of rape by the accused she had
become pregnant. She was duly examined
medically by Dr. Laxmi Pandey, Medical
Officer, Sadar Hospital, Chas, on 10th
December, 2003.
(3.) It is the case of the petitioner that he
made a representation to the Superintendent
of Police, Bokaro on 11th December, 2003
stating that the allegations which have been
brought against htm were false since he had
undergone vasectomy in the year 1976-77
and was incapable of coition. Subsequently,
an application was filed in the court of Chief
Judicial Magistrate, Bokaro stating that
Malti Kumari, O.P. No. 3, had given birth to
a female child on 16th May, 2004. Thereafter,
in course of investigation the Investigating
Officer filed a petition before the Chief
Judicial Magistrate, Bokaro, for permission
to conduct a D.N.A. test on the petitioner
but the same was denied as the petitioner
was not in judicial custody. Inasmuch as, it
was not possible to collect any semen sample
from the petitioner, a prayer was made by
the Investigating Officer for D. N. A. test to
be conducted from the blood samples of O.
P. No. 3 and her new-born child. On 28th
May, 2004 the learned Sessions Judge,
Bokaro, directed that D. N. A. test to be
conducted at the cost of the petitioner and
along with that the petitioner was directed
to be examined by a Medical Board to
ascertain as to whether he had ever been
operated upon for vasectomy. However, it
transpires that on several dates the O.P. No.
3 refused to give blood for D.N.A. test which
would have had the effect of determining the
paternity of the child. On the other hand,
an application was made by the O.P. No. 2,
who has since died, stating that it was not
possible either for the O.P. No. 3 or the child
to give a blood sample for the D. N. A. test
as the health of both O.P. No. 3 and the child
was not good.;
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