PILIBHIT: A 45-year-old Dalit marginal farmer in UP killed himself after police allegedly “forced a compromise with the accused” in a case involving the abduction and rape of his 11-year-old daughter by three men from a neighbouring village in Pilibhit district.
The girl was kidnapped by the accused, in their 20s, while she was on her way to meet her father at a farm on May 9. Her father filed a police complaint the next day. But the police, instead of registering an FIR, “forced the compromise” between the survivor and the accused in the presence of some relatives. The girl’s parents were not called or informed and the SHO of Amaria, Mukesh Shukla, “closed the matter” soon after.
Victim’s family: Police ‘forced the compromise’
The farmer’s body was found hanging from a tree in Amaria on Wednesday night. His family blamed the police for the suicide and local cops finally registered an FIR following a complaint by the farmer’s 20-year-old son.
On Thursday, SHO, Mukesh Shukla, who refused to comment on the allegations of “police negligence”, said, “Three men — Rahul, Dinesh and Rohit (only first names available) — were booked under IPC sections 363 (kidnapping), 376 (rape), 342 (wrongful confinement), 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 306 (abetment to suicide), and under relevant sections of Pocso and the SC/ST acts. Two of the accused have been picked up; the third is still at large.” The girl has been sent for medical tests and the report is awaited, he added.
Admitting “certain lapses in the case on part of Amaria police station”, SP (Pilibhit) Atul Sharma said, “I’ve ordered ASP, Anil Kumar Yadav, to probe the matter and directed him to file his report within the next two days.”
In the complaint, the farmer’s son mentioned how his sister was forcibly taken on a bike by the accused to Kichha in Uttarakhand where she was locked in a room and raped by one of them throughout the night. The men also threatened the traumatised girl with “dire consequences” if she informed the cops.
Incidentally, as per an earlier observation by the Supreme Court (SC), “there should not be any compromise in the case of rape with a minor girl”. The apex court had stated: “Such a crime is a crime against the society…”
Pilibhit-based lawyer, Ashwini Agnihotri, told TOI: “The concerned police officer should also be booked under IPC section 166-A (public servant disobeying law, with intent to cause injury to any person) for refusing to register an FIR in the case of rape where the victim is a minor.”
The girl was kidnapped by the accused, in their 20s, while she was on her way to meet her father at a farm on May 9. Her father filed a police complaint the next day. But the police, instead of registering an FIR, “forced the compromise” between the survivor and the accused in the presence of some relatives. The girl’s parents were not called or informed and the SHO of Amaria, Mukesh Shukla, “closed the matter” soon after.
Victim’s family: Police ‘forced the compromise’
The farmer’s body was found hanging from a tree in Amaria on Wednesday night. His family blamed the police for the suicide and local cops finally registered an FIR following a complaint by the farmer’s 20-year-old son.
On Thursday, SHO, Mukesh Shukla, who refused to comment on the allegations of “police negligence”, said, “Three men — Rahul, Dinesh and Rohit (only first names available) — were booked under IPC sections 363 (kidnapping), 376 (rape), 342 (wrongful confinement), 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 306 (abetment to suicide), and under relevant sections of Pocso and the SC/ST acts. Two of the accused have been picked up; the third is still at large.” The girl has been sent for medical tests and the report is awaited, he added.
Admitting “certain lapses in the case on part of Amaria police station”, SP (Pilibhit) Atul Sharma said, “I’ve ordered ASP, Anil Kumar Yadav, to probe the matter and directed him to file his report within the next two days.”
In the complaint, the farmer’s son mentioned how his sister was forcibly taken on a bike by the accused to Kichha in Uttarakhand where she was locked in a room and raped by one of them throughout the night. The men also threatened the traumatised girl with “dire consequences” if she informed the cops.
Incidentally, as per an earlier observation by the Supreme Court (SC), “there should not be any compromise in the case of rape with a minor girl”. The apex court had stated: “Such a crime is a crime against the society…”
Pilibhit-based lawyer, Ashwini Agnihotri, told TOI: “The concerned police officer should also be booked under IPC section 166-A (public servant disobeying law, with intent to cause injury to any person) for refusing to register an FIR in the case of rape where the victim is a minor.”