Direction: In the passage given below there are 5 blanks, each followed by a word given in bold. Each blank has four alternative words given in options (1), (2), (3) and (4). You have to tell which word will best suit the respective blank. Mark (5) as your answer if the word given in bold after the blank is your answer i.e, No improvement required.

Cops at the Chandapa police station who were first approached by the Hathras victim's family after the ______(A)______ [stated] gangrape didn't follow the ______(B)______ [led down] procedures of recording the statement and sending the girl for medical examination, the Central Bureau of Investigation has reportedly said in its ______(C)______ [complaint] in the case. The CBI has based its charges on the ______(D)______ [simpleton] statement on September 22, which was considered as her 'dying declaration', in which she accused four youths of her village of raping and trying to strangulate her. The accused were unable to provide convincing ______(E)______ [shields] that they were not present at the scene of the crime at the time of the incident.