CBI chargesheet refutes Hathras case accused's family claim that he is minor

LUCKNOW: The chargesheet filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has refuted the claim of one of the accused in the alleged gang rape and murder case in Hathras that he is a minor.
While the family of accused Luv Kush claimed before the media after his arrest on September 23, 2020, that he was born on December 2, 2002 and hence was a minor, the CBI in its chargesheet has mentioned that he is 21.
In the chargesheet, the other three accused have been identified as 22-year-old Sandeep, 29-year-old Ramu, Ravi, 31. All of them have been arrested.
The UP government had recommended a CBI probe in the case on October 2 following a nationwide outcry over the post-midnight cremation of the girl by the local administration after she died at a Delhi hospital on September 29.
The girl was allegedly gang-raped and attacked on September 14 at her village in Hathras. The CBI on the basis of dying declaration and circumstantial evidences has charged the four accused for rape, gang rape, murder, criminal assault, and under the SC/ST act in its chargesheet submitted on December 18 before a special court in Hathras.
The family of Luvkush has been claiming that he was a minor and falsely implicated. Even when the CBI team visited them on October 20 to take his documents, they stuck to their claim.
On the same day, talking to reporters, his mother shared a copy of Luv Kush's mark sheet in which his date of birth was December 2, 2002. She claimed that the CBI had taken the original marksheet.
The CBI had got forensic psychological assessment and layered voice analysis test of the four accused done by forensic experts in Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL), New Delhi. It must also be noted here that a multi-institutional medical board was constituted under an AIIMS professor for the case.