Amnesia Pub gang-rape: Telangana High Court rules Wakf Board chief’s son as minor

HYDERABAD: In a twist to the Jubilee Hills Amnesia Pub gang-rape case of March 2022, the Telangana High Court on Tuesday ruled that one of the accused, the son of Telangana Wakf Board Chairman, was a minor. The high court giving its order to this effect is likely to cast its impact on the proceedings against the accused.

The Jubilee Hills police have in the past approached the court seeking directions to recognise all the accused in the Jubilee Hills gang-rape case as majors. The Juvenile Court has earlier passed orders recognising the son of Wakf Board Chairman as a major. This prompted the boy’s father to approach the Telangana High Court challenging the Juvenile court’s verdict.

In a significant move, the Telangana High Court on Tuesday ruled that the boy was a minor and passed orders to this effect.

In March 2022, a 17-year-old minor girl was gang-raped when she was returning home after attending a get-together at Amnesia Pub, located on Road no. 36 in Jubilee Hills. Six persons, including five minors, were identified as the alleged perpetrators of the heinous crime, which sent shockwaves and evoked widespread outrage.

The six accused allegedly befriended the girl outside the pub and offered to drop her at her house. They, later took her to a place near Peddamma Temple and allegedly gang-raped her in the car.