SP transferred, cop suspended over schoolgirls’ molestation case in Madhya Pradesh

By PTI

DINDORI: The Madhya Pradesh authorities on Wednesday transferred Dindori Superintendent of Police (SP) Sanjay Singh over alleged poor dealing with of a case of molestation of some ladies in a faculty within the district. The order got here regardless of it being a vacation for Holi.

Singh has been made an assistant inspector normal (AIG) on the police headquarters in Bhopal, stated an official.

Sources stated Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has expressed displeasure on the approach the alleged molestation case was dealt with.

On Tuesday, Dindori SP Singh had ordered the suspension of a policeman for alleged dereliction of responsibility whereas registering a case on the criticism of some ladies within the faculty, which is run by the Jabalpur Diocesan Education Society (JDES) of the Roman Catholic group.

A priest, a nun, the principal and a visitor trainer of the varsity in Junwani, some 60 kilometres from the district headquarters, had been booked on March 4 after just a few lady college students stated they had been crushed up and molested.

The principal was then arrested, officers had stated earlier.

Priyank Kanoongo, chairperson of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), met the scholars and officers on Tuesday.

After the assembly on Tuesday, Singh stated that Samnapur police station in-charge Vijay Patle was suspended for not invoking the SC/ST Act in opposition to the accused principal and releasing him.

In a collection of tweets from his official deal with, Kanoongo stated that the organisation the place youngsters had been allegedly sexually abused was getting funding from the federal government.

The authorities cash was being taken within the identify of 4 totally different hostels on the identical campus and costs had been additionally being collected from the youngsters, he stated.

He claimed that proof of conversion was additionally discovered within the establishment.

Police have additionally registered a case in opposition to 10 Gondwana Gantantra Party (GGP) leaders for obstructing a public servant from discharging his responsibility, stated Kotwali police station in-charge C Okay Sirame.

The NCPCR chairman stated that the GGP leaders, together with Radheshyam Kakodia, created ruckus on the government-run one-stop centre the place the women had been saved, surrounded the police station and took away the accused moreover making the identify of the women public and trying their character assassination.

The district administration has began the method of suspension of two block training officers, whereas the Additional District Magistrate (ADM) will examine the monetary bungling within the instructional institute involved, Kanoongo stated.

Earlier, SP Singh had knowledgeable that the 40-year-old principal and 35-year-old visitor trainer had been booked on the evening of March 4 below part 354 (assault or felony pressure to girl with intent to outrage her modesty) of the Indian Penal Code, the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act.

The caretaker of the varsity, who’s a 40-year-old priest, has been booked for overlooking the complaints of the women, whereas the nun (35) has been charged with beating the women.

Only the principal has been arrested as but, SP Singh had stated.

Singh has been made an assistant inspector normal (AIG) on the police headquarters in Bhopal, stated an official.

Sources stated Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has expressed displeasure on the approach the alleged molestation case was dealt with.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );