Three policemen suspended for death of rape survivor’s father ‘in accident’

Three police personnel have been suspended in Kanpur on Thursday after a preliminary probe discovered them culpable of negligence within the death “in an accident” of the father of a minor lady who was allegedly gang-raped on March 8.

DIG Kanpur Preetinder Singh stated the halka prabhari of the Sajeti police station, the Ghatampur outpost in cost and a beat constable have been suspended for “negligence” on the premise of an preliminary probe report. The latter two have been suspended for negligence within the accident by which the father of the lady died. An in depth probe can be carried out by SP Rural Kanpur.

Meanwhile, police arrested the second of the three accused individuals, Dipu Yadav, who’s the son of a police officer posted in Kannuaj. Golu Yadav, one of the 2 who allegedly raped the minor, has already been arrested.

The third accused, Saurabh Yadav, who’s but to be arrested, is Dipu’s brother and is accused of intimidating the minor lady’s household after they have been attempting to lodge a grievance in opposition to the alleged gang rape.

The father of the lady aged 13 died after being hit by a truck a day after she lodged a police grievance on Wednesday.

Relatives’ cost

The relations of the lady alleged that he was murdered and accused the police of complicity.

A case below Sections 376d (a), 504 and 506 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 5G/6 of the POCSO Act was registered on the Sajeti police station on March 9. The lady had reached a neighborhood well being centre in Ghatampur for a medical examination after the FIR, when her father and brother stepped out to drink tea within the morning, stated a senior police officer. The father was hit by an unidentified truck wand taken to a hospital the place he died, stated DIG Kanpur Preetinder Singh, including {that a} case below accident had been registered.

As per the FIR lodged on March 9 in opposition to the three accused, the lady’s father stated that on March 8, when his daughter was returning house from the fields round 7 p.m., Dipu and Golu grabbed her from behind and took her to an remoted place and took turns to repeatedly rape her. They threatened to kill her if she made noise or knowledgeable anybody, he said.

The lady managed to return house late at night time in a nasty state and narrated her ordeal, the FIR stated.

The lady’s household alleged {that a} day after the incident, after they had simply stepped out of the home to lodge a grievance, Saurabh appeared and threatened to kill them in the event that they went to the police to report the matter.

“You should know that my father is a daroga [police inspector]. You can’t do anything to us through police station and police. We will do the bad act [rape] again in front of everyone,” the FIR learn, quoting the alleged risk made to the lady’s household by Saurabh.

Stage dharna

The lady’s relations and outraged locals staged a dharna on the highway and held up site visitors on the Kanpur-Sagar freeway. The lady’s grandfather alleged that his son had been murdered in complicity with the police. “Police walo ne marwa dala hai [The police got him killed],” he advised journalists.

IG Kanpur Mohit Agarwal stated instructions had been despatched to e-book the accused below the National Security Act and the Gangsters Act. If the accused had unlawful property or home or had encroached upon authorities land, it will be seized or demolished. An ex-gratia of ₹10 lakh and 5 bigha of land had been introduced for the sufferer household as compensation, he stated.

The State police, in a tweet, had instructed the Kanpur police to swiftly crack the case of the father’s death on the premise of “evidence” and make sure the arrest of all accused within the gang rape case.