A fast track court today recorded the statements of two persons, including a chief medical jurist P Saraswat, who had conducted the medical examination on a Japanese tourist allegedly raped at a hotel in Agra last month.
The statement of S Parimola, an IPS trainer, who is said to have brought the victim from Agra and recorded her statement during the initial period of investigation, was also recorded by judge Mahavir Prasad.
The recording of the womans statement was deferred as it ahs to be done by a translator.
The prosecution counsel Ashok Tejwani told the court that one Harish Bhatt will translate the statements of the woman and claimed that Japanese embassy too had recommended for Bhatt to be translator on behalf of the victim.
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