The Delhi police on Saturday chargesheeted four persons in the sensational Maulana Azad Medical College student gangrape case, minutes after a city court declared prime accused Rahul as a major and dismissed his plea to
transfer the case to a juvenile court.
In the charge sheet filed in the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Bharat Parashar, the police named Rahul, his friend Amit, Mohan Lal and Ashok as accused in the case.
Rahul and Amit have been charged under Section 376 (rape), Section 367 (abduction), Section 368 (wrongful confinement), Section 506 (criminal intimidation), Section 354 (assaulting a woman with intent to outrage her modesty), Section 324 (causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means), Section 292 (obscenity) and Section 201 (destruction of evidence) read with Section 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 27, 54 and 59 of the Arms Act, Rahul's counsel Ajay Digpaul said.
Accused Mohan Lal, from whom the cell phone of the victim was recovered, has been charged under Section 411 (dishonestly receiving stolen property) read with Section 34 of the IPC while Ashok, accused of harbouring the prime accused, has been charged under Section 212 read with Section 34 of the IPC, Digpaul said.
The police have also filed a list of 45 witnesses and 44 documents along with the charge sheet, which would come up before a court on January 27.
Two minor accused in the case are in the juvenile observation home and proceedings against them would take place separately in a juvenile court, Digpaul said.
Rahul was arrested by the police on November 22, a week after the incident, and his interrogation led to the arrest of the other accused.
Rahul, Amit and Ashok are in judicial custody while Mohan Lal is out on bail.
The victim, a fourth-year student of the Maulana Azad Medical College was allegedly raped by three youths at knifepoint on the terrace of the 'Khooni Darwaza' monument on the busy Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg in New Delhi on November 15.