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FTC allows defence to bring translator in Japanese tourist’s rape case

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A Fast Track Court today allowed the defence counsel in the Japanese tourists rape case to appoint its own translator to record the statement of the woman allegedly raped in a hotel in Pushkar last month.

Judge Mahavir Prasad asked the defence counsel to bring its own translator on May 23 when the evidence of the victim is to be recorded.

Meanwhile, the cross examination of S Parimala, an IAS trainee, who brought the victim from Agra to Ajmer and was actively associated with the case, was today completed.

Constable N Ram tendered evidence that he had taken Japanese tourists fax to Pushkar for lodging report in the police station.

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