Kanpur: In connection with the circulation of an obscene video involving a 17-year-old girl and a 25-year-old man with intellectual disabilities, police said only the former employee of the rehabilitation centre who allegedly circulated the purported video would be chargesheeted in the case.
Police served a notice on Vipin and released him.
The girl, a resident of Shyam Nagar, and the man studied at the rehabilitation centre, according to police. Police said Vipin, the accused, allegedly recorded the video and sent it to the girl’s family. The man’s family said he had earlier been examined at Ursula Hospital, where doctors certified that he had an intellectual disability.
The girl’s family approached the police commissioner, after which an FIR was lodged at Kakadev police station. Police booked Vipin under provisions of the IT Act and initially registered a case against the man on charges of rape and under the Pocso Act . They later took the man to Varanasi for an assessment of his mental condition. They alleged that police refused to accept the certificate.