Dalit's gangrape: Activist seeks NCW intervention
Express news service Posted online: Tue Nov 08 2011, 05:36 hrs
Ahmedabad : An Ahmedabad-Based human rights activist has lodged a
complaint with the National Commission for Women (NCW) requesting it
to urgently take up the matter related to the alleged gangrape of a
Dalit girl in the Panchmahals district.
A police sub-inspector has been suspended in the case after he was
found to have tore off the original FIR from the official records and
registered second FIR excluding names of three local BJP leaders from
the case. Police have ignored the first FIR and investigated the
second FIR only and chargesheeted the accused.
Activist Rajesh Solanki told The Indian Express, "This is a case which
clearly highlights the obnoxious nexus between the police and
political class in Gujarat. Police officers are ready to bow down and
succumb to their political bosses. Here, the sub-inspector has got
suspension while shielding some BJP leaders in the region."
"And it is surprising that nobody is coming out in support of the
victim girl. As part of the civil society, I've sought the NCW's
immediate intervention in this matter," he added.
The case relates to a 20-year-old girl from Boidiya village of
Santrampur taluka in the Panchmahals. The girl had, on August 4,
lodged a complaint with the Santrampur police accusing certain persons
of raping her.
After registering the complaint, the Santrampur police had transferred
the FIR to the Shehra police station in the same district. The
subordinate officer at Shehra also registered the FIR and made
official entries in the Station Diary.
However, the head of that police station — sub-inspector Avardan
Gadhvi — tore off the original FIR and the corresponding entries in
the Station Diary and registered second FIR in the case, which struck
off names of three local BJP leaders. Two of these accused in the
first FIR were made witnesses in the second FIR registered by Gadhvi.
Police authorities subsequently suspended Gadhvi, but investigation
was carried out on the second FIR on the basis of a statement by the
girl that the second FIR was right. Police have not registered any
offence against Gadhvi for tampering with official records.
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