By IndiaTomorrow.net,
New Delhi, 22 Oct 2014: The National Human Rights Commission has asked the Director General of Police, Bihar and the Commissioner of Police, Delhi to personally look into a matter of sexual exploitation of a girl by the employees of a residential school of Vaishali in Bihar and harassment of her parents leading to ‘false implication’ of his father by Delhi Police and threat to arrest her mother who has been forced to take shelter in Gurudwaras in the National Capital and beg to feed her two daughters.
The police chiefs of the two states have been given six weeks to respond to the NHRC notice.
The NHRC has also asked its Director General (Investigation) to depute a team of officers for the enquiry into the matter covering all allegations made in the complaint and submit the report.
The victim’s mother, in her complaint to NHRC, had alleged that at the instance of the rape accused, her husband was falsely implicated by Delhi Police and is lodged in Tihar Jail. The local police was planning to send her also to jail. Her daughter’s tormentors were involved in flesh trade and were in habit of getting false FIRs registered against people to extort money in the name of compromise. She apprehended that once she was also lodged in jail, her children would be sold to the traffickers by them. She had been begging on the roads to feed her children and forced to take shelter in Gurudwaras in Delhi. She prayed for protection from harassment by both Delhi and Bihar Police.
During the course of enquiry, NHRC found that the allegations of the complainant regarding the connivance of the police with the accused persons appeared to have merit, given the ever changing story of the police investigation. Initially, even after registering an FIR on the complaint of the victim’s father, the police did not take any appropriate action. The Superintendent of Police, Vaishali, Bihar in his report held that allegations made in the complaint were baseless. But the Commission asked the DGP, Bihar to get the matter further investigated by CBCID.
According to CBCID report, an FIR was registered against three accused persons on the complaint of victim’s father. It also said that rape was attempted on one of his daughters. One male accused was arrested and investigations were on against the two other female accused in the matter. In another report of Bihar Police, it was indicated that the arrest warrants were issued against the two absconding accused by the competent court but they could not be arrested. Subsequent to this, in another report, it was said that the victim girl had turned hostile saying that the FIR was registered by her father in anger and nobody had attempted to rape her.
It was also stated that a compromise deed was filed in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Vaishali, Bihar which eventually was contradicted by the victim’s mother in her comments to the Commission saying that they were intimidated and threatened by the rape accused and were forced to turn hostile before the court and to sign the compromise letter. She was also forced to migrate from Bihar and shift to Delhi and the rape accused chased her family upto Delhi and continued to create trouble by giving threats.
Mr. Justice D. Murugesan, Member, NHRC has observed that the possibility of undue influence on the victim and her family to compromise the matter also cannot be ruled out. The petitioner has not only faced trauma in Bihar but also in Delhi.
The allegations, if found true, raise a serious issue of continuous issue of violation of human rights of the rape victim and her parents, NHRC said in a statement.
