Express News Service
LUCKNOW: In a stunning incident, a Station House Officer (SHO) raped a minor Dalit lady who turned up on the police station to lodge a grievance towards 4 individuals who gang-raped her. The protector who turned the perpetrator of the horrific crime is absconding.
The incident has come to mild within the Lalitpur district of the Bundelkhand area of UP.
While the 13-year-old rape survivor has been despatched to a destitute house for kids, the accused SHO, who stands suspended, is on the run. However, three of the 5 accused, together with a lady, have been arrested thus far.
As per Lalitpur SP Nikhil Pathak, 4 individuals allegedly kidnapped the lady from the world underneath the Pali police station and took her to Bhopal the place they gang-raped her on April 22. She then ran away from their captivity and reached the police station to register her grievance. Initially, the SHO Tilakdhari Saroj despatched her to a destitute house alongside together with her aunt however referred to as her after two days on the pretext of recording her assertion and raped her in a room of the police station.
The survivor narrated the complete incident to the Lalitpur SP who then suspended the SHO. He has ordered a probe into the incident. After the preliminary investigation, 5 accused together with the SHO have been booked underneath Sections 363 (Punishment for kidnapping), 376 (Where a lady is raped by a number of in a bunch), 376B (Whoever, being a public servant, takes benefit of his official place and induces or seduces a lady in his custody to have sexual activity with him), 120B (Criminal conspiracy) of the IPC and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) and three(2)5 of the SC/ST Act.
“Taking cognizance of the issue, Additional Director General Kanpur Zone has ordered to attach the entire staff, comprising 29 police personnel, of Pali police station to the police lines,” mentioned ADG ((Law and Order) Prashant Kumar including that the strictest motion can be taken within the case.
The ADG (Law and Order) mentioned that the DIG Jhansi vary has been requested by the UP DGP to conduct an inquiry into the matter and submit a report highlighting the situations underneath which the SHO dedicated the crime. Moreover, the DIG would additionally probe the function /fault of the supervisory officer, others together with the SP, mentioned Prashant Kumar.
The contingent of 29 cops who have been deputed at Pali police station when the minor was allegedly raped by the SHO comprised six Sub-Inspectors, six head constables, 10 constables, 5 ladies constables, a driver and a follower.
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Lalitpur SP Nikhil Pathak mentioned that the three individuals arrested in reference to the case have been recognized as Rajbhan, Mahendra and one Gulab Bai, who occurs to be the sufferer’s aunt. Six police groups have been deployed to nab others.
Meanwhile, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav visited Lalitpur on Wednesday because the gang-rape incident is snowballing into a giant political slugfest with Congress normal secretary Priyanka Gandhi slamming the federal government over the alleged rape and questioning the “law and order reforms of the state”.
