This story is from November 19, 2021

Some pages from Navsari girl’s diary missing, say police

Some pages from Navsari girl’s diary missing, say police
File photo of the girl at Surat railway station
Surat: Investigations into the alleged gang-rape of an 18-year-old girl has revealed that some pages of her diary have mysteriously gone missing. The complaint of abetment to suicide and gang-rape filed by Valsad railway police also states that the mentor of the Vadodara-based institution where the girl worked had taken photos of the girl’s diary and even her injuries.

According to the FIR filed by the police, Vaishnavi Tapaniya, mentor of the institution, had taken photos of some pages of the girl’s diary and sent the images to the trustees of the institution on Whatsapp. The complaint also says that the images were deleted later from Whatsapp but it is not certain who deleted them.
Registered by B R Dangi, CPI of Valsad railway police, the complaint further says that Tapaniya had also taken photos of the injuries that the girl had suffered on her legs and sent them to the trustees. Even those photos were deleted. The cops are now trying to ascertain who tore some pages of the girl’s diary. Also, the bicycle that the girl used to ride is also missing.
The girl had died by suicide in the coach of Gujarat Queen Express at Valsad on November 4. During investigations, the cops found a diary with her name written on the cover from her bag. Her diary revealed that she was undergoing fellowship training for the last two years at an institute in Vadodara.
The girl had mentioned in her diary that she was sexually assaulted by an auto-rickshaw driver and his aide at Vaccine Institute Ground in Vadodara. The diary stated that she was kidnapped near Jagdish lane. It further said that a bus driver later rescued her and called her friend with whom she left. The bus driver also saw two persons at the spot.
The complaint said that the bus driver had later called the friend to find out if they took any action in the case but the girl warned him not to call back again. Vadodara crime branch has scanned profiles of hundreds of auto drivers and also zeroed in on some suspects but they haven’t got any concrete evidence yet.
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