Friday, June 17, 2011

[ZESTCaste] Cops flayed for ignoring Dalit girl’s murder

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/169098/cops-flayed-ignoring-dalit-girls.html

Cops flayed for ignoring Dalit girl's murder
Lucknow, June 15, DHNS :

For the second time in a fortnight, the Uttar Pradesh police have
found themselves on the back foot over the murder of a dalit minor at
Ramapur village in Sultanpur district.

The police officials, already under fire after the murder of a
teenager inside a police station in Lakhimpur-Kheri district, had
allegedly refused to register any case when eight-year-old Ankita was
found murdered in a nearby village on Saturday.

The SHO of Jaisinghpur police station reportedly refused to file an
FIR in this regard even after Ankita's father approached him many
times. "For the last four days, I have been trying to lodge a
complaint with the police, but they ignored my pleas," Ankita's father
Vikas Prasad alleged.

The police officials had even asked him to bury the body and forget
about the incident. The victim was ultimately buried a few days later.
As the matter came to light, some local politicians exerted pressure
on the police to investigate the matter.

The body of the girl was exhumed on Tuesday and the autopsy revealed
that she had been murdered. According to the report, Ankita had died
of excessive bleeding after being attacked by a sharp-edged weapon on
her neck. "The girl was laying in a pool of blood and her body bore
many injury marks," the villagers claimed.

A murder case has been registered against unidentified assailants,
police said, adding that stern action would be taken against the staff
at the Jaisinghpur police station for failing to register an FIR
immediately.


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