A 13-year-old rape survivor was allegedly raped once more by the Station House Officer of a police station in Lalitpur district of Uttar Pradesh the place she had gone to file a grievance towards 4 males for kidnapping and gangraping her final month.
Prayagraj Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) Prem Prakash stated SHO Tilakdhari Saroj was arrested from close to the Allahabad High Court on Wednesday.
Till now, police have arrested six individuals within the case, the chilling particulars of which emerged after the sufferer narrated her ordeal to an NGO, which approached the superintendent of police. Following his intervention, an FIR was registered on Tuesday.
Saroj was arrested following a tip-off from his Kanpur counterpart. The SHO’s location was first traced to Banda, then Chitrakoot and eventually in Prayagraj.
After his arrest, the SHO was heard saying on TV channels that he was harmless. He sought an neutral inquiry into the incident.
The woman is the daughter of a farmer and is at the moment within the custody of the Childline Welfare Committee. Meanwhile, Lalitpur SP Nikhil Pathak has shunted out all police personnel from the police station linked to the case and hooked up them with Reserve Police Lines.
According to the grievance lodged by the sufferer’s mom, the boys allegedly left the woman on the police station on April 26, following which the police handed her over to her aunt.
The grievance said {that a} day later, the police known as the woman to the police station to file her assertion — and that within the night, the aunt took her to the SHO’s room the place he allegedly raped her.
Taking suo motu cognizance of media studies on the incident, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) issued notices to the UP Chief Secretary and DGP calling for a report inside 4 weeks.
The case triggered heated reactions from the Opposition, with Congress chief Priyanka Gandhi Vadra saying in a sequence of tweets that reforms wanted in regulation and order have been being “suppressed in the noise of bulldozers”.
Targeting the Yogi Adityanath authorities, Priyanka Gandhi tweeted in Hindi, asking “if police stations are not safe for women, where will they go for complaints?” She requested if the UP authorities has given critical thought to “increase deployment of women in police stations, to make police stations safe for women”.
The Samajwadi Party tweeted in Hindi that “the biggest question in the BJP government is whom to trust and whom not to”. “A minor, who came to file a rape complaint, was raped by the SHO… Now the CM should tell where victim daughters should go. Ensure security for the victim and take strict action against those found guilty,” it stated.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”