The Office of the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) has filed 17 fresh charges against 15 officers drawn from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and the National Intelligence Service (NIS) over the 2022 kidnapping of two Indian nationals and their Kenyan driver.

🇰🇪 Breaking It Down

Through a charge sheet summary seen by  Kenyans.co.ke on August 27, among the charges is kidnapping with intent to murder, an offence provided for under Section 258 of the Penal Code.

Additionally, the officers also face a charge of conspiracy to commit a felony, contrary to Section 393 of the Penal Code, which defines and penalizes the offense of  conspiracy to commit a felony .

Another charge accuses them of subjecting a person to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment, contrary to Section 51(3) of the National Intelligence Service Act, which states that any member of the service who subjects a person to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment commits an offense.

📌 What You Need to Know

The charge sheet further includes counts of forgery, arising from documents linked to the alleged operation.

Some of the officers are separately accused of committing cruel, inhumane, and degrading treatment against the victims.

Others face a charge of cooperating in the execution of cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment during the same incident.

According to the prosecution, the officers travelled in four motor vehicles on July 22, 2022, and intercepted a car in Nairobi carrying the two Indian nationals and their Kenyan driver.

The fresh charges come after the High Court of Kenya   terminated murder proceedings against 15 security officers accused of the July 2022 abduction and killing of two Indian nationals and their Kenyan driver.

The victims, Zulfiqar Ahmed Khan and Mohammed Zaid Sami Kidwai, had worked on the digital campaign team for William Ruto during the 2022 general election, alongside their Kenyan taxi driver.

📰 Source: Kenyans.co.ke