पुलिस और प्रशासन की जवाबदेही तय करने के लिए राजनीतिक, सामाजिक और कानूनी प्रणाली मौजूद है. जरुरत है उसे लागू करने की. विधिक प्रणाली में प्रशासनिक , दीवानी विधि और आपराधिक विधि तीनों का सहारा लिया जा सकता है. मध्यप्रदेश का यह समाचार आपराधिक विधि द्वारा पुलिस की जवाबदेही का एक उदाहरण है. इसे हर राज्य को लागू करना चाहिए. नरसिंहपुर, मध्य प्रदेश में पुलिस ने दुष्कर्म के मामले को दर्ज नहीं किया. दो पुलिस अधिकारियों के विरुद्ध FIR दर्ज कर गिरफ्तार किया गया है. संभवतः यह FIR, IPC की धारा 166A (c) के अंतर्गत हुई है, जो २०१३ से ही अस्तित्व में है. संभवतः यह इस प्रकार की पहली गिरफ्तारी है. सर्वोच्च न्यायालय ने भी एक मामले ( In Re Assessment of The Criminal Justice System In Response To Sexual Offences On 18 December, 2019) में यह स्वतः संज्ञान लिया है और राज्यों से पूछा है कि 166 A में क्या हो रहा है. इस मामले की सर्वोच्च न्यायालय को हर महीने सुनवाई करनी चाहिए,
Narsinghpur (MP), Oct 3 (PTI) A policeman has been arrested in Madhya Pradesh''s Narsinghpur district for allegedly not registering a Dalit "rape victim''s" complaint for four days, following which she ended her life, a top officer said on Saturday.
The arrest was made after Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan took serious cognisance of the alleged lapse and ordered that a case be registered against the local police official. Two senior officials were also shunted out as per the orders.
The woman, who was allegedly raped by three men four days ago, committed suicide on Friday, police said.
An official in Bhopal said that Chouhan had ordered on Friday night that Assistant Inspector of Police (ASI) Mishrilal Kodapa of Gotitoriya police outpost in Gadarwara tehsil, some 50 kms from Narsinghpur district headquarters, should be booked and arrested for not registering the victim''s complaint of gang-rape.
Besides, as per the orders, Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Rajesh Tiwari and Gadarwara Sub Divisional Officer of Police (SDOP) S R Yadav were shunted out from Narsinghpur, he said.
"A case was registered against Kodapa and he was arrested under 166 (c) (public servant failing to record information) of IPC on Friday night," Jabalpur Zone Inspector General of Police Bhagwat Singh Chauhan told PTI.
The ASP and the SDOP have been transferred from Narsinghpur, he added.
Kodapa had been suspended on Friday after a video went viral in social media, in which the husband of the deceased woman accused the policeman of not registering a complaint of rape, police said.
The man was purportedly heard saying in the audio- visual clip that instead of taking action in the case, he was held based on a complaint lodged by the accused and had to cough up Rs 50,000 as a bribe for his release.
"Three men identified as Arvind and Parsu Choudhary, who belonged to the same community as the victim, and another accused Anil Rai, allegedly gang-raped the 32-year old woman on Monday. They trio has been arrested," Narsinghpur SP Ajay Singh said.
According to police, the accused allegedly raped the woman when she was in a field cutting grass for the cattle.
The police, however, said on Friday that the woman''s two nieces said that the accused caught hold of her and teased her, but did not confirm that she was raped.
As per the girls'' version, when they raised an alarm, the accused fled from the spot, police added.
SDOP Yadav, who has been shunted out, had said on Friday that the woman and her husband had orally complained to the police on the same day but there was no clarity in the complaint.
On Friday, when the victim went to fetch water from a tap, a local woman had allegedly taunted her, after which the victim returned home and hanged herself, police said.
Police said they have have already arrested that woman.
"Besides, Motilal, Arvind''s father, too, was arrested under IPC section 306 (abetment of suicide) as he had said something insulting to the woman," Yadav had said.
After the Dalit woman hanged herself, the police registered a case of gang rape against the three accused on Friday after four days. PTI COR LAL NP NP
Family alleges police inaction leading to death of Dalit woman.
The Narsinghpur police on Friday arrested an assistant sub-inspector of police (ASI) for not reportedly registering a case of rape against three men on the complaint of a 32-year-old Dalit woman on Monday, hours after she was found dead at her house.
“Her family members said the ASI refused to register the report,” Assistant Superintendent of Police Rajesh Tiwari told The Hindu. The police had suspended Mishrilal Kodapa and registered a case under section 166A(c) of the Indian Penal Code, he added.
On Friday morning the police found the woman dead at her house, said Gadarwara Sub Divisional Officer of Police (SDOP) S.R. Yadav. “She had gone to fetch water from a common tap where one Leela Bai taunted her, after which she returned home and reportedly died by suicide,” he said.
Meanwhile, the father-in-law of the woman told reporters she had died as the police didn’t act in time. “If the police had acted when she had approached them, she would have been here with us,” he said.
On Friday, the police arrested Arvind Choudhary, one of the accused, and his father Motilal, who allegedly insulted her. On Monday, the woman had gone to fetch fodder for cattle along with her nieces when the alleged incident took place.
The other two accused of rape, Parshu Choudhary and Anil Rai, were absconding and the police had declared a reward of ₹5,000 for information on them, said Mr. Yadav. “We are yet to receive the post-mortem report.”
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MP cops abused and turned away gang-rape victim, booked for delaying FIR
The victim was broken after he rape and the treatment meted out by the police and took her own life on Friday.
BHOPAL Updated: Oct 04, 2020 11:23 IST
HT Correspondent | Edited by Abhinav Sahay
Hindustan Times, Bhopal/Jabalpur
The cops, however, claim that the rape victim’s complaint was very vague and therefore not registered. (Courtesy: Police Headquarters website)
Another cop was booked in Madhya Pradesh’s Narsinghpur district on Saturday for allegedly refusing to lodge a first information report (FIR) of an alleged gang-rape victim, who died by suicide on Friday, said police.
The police also arrested two more accused- one for the gang-rape and the other for abetment to causing death by suicide.
However, police officers alleged that the FIR was not lodged since the woman’s complaint on September 28—the day of the incident-- and also on subsequent days, was vague. They also refused to share the details of her post-mortem report on Saturday.
On Saturday, Chichli police station in-charge sub inspector Anil Singh was booked under section 166A for non-recording of information under the Indian Penal Code (IPC). Earlier on Friday evening, Gotitoriya police outpost in-charge assistant sub-inspector Mishrilal Kodapa was booked and arrested under the same provision of IPC. Both have been suspended, said Ajay Singh, superintendent of police, Narsinghpur.
Police also arrested the third accused in the gang-rape case and the second accused in the abetment to suicide case on Saturday. Earlier, two accused in gang-rape case and one of the two accused in the abetment to suicide case—including a woman-- were arrested on Friday. All the accused are from the victim’s village, said the SP.
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The 32-year-old Dalit woman was allegedly gang-raped on September 28. Her husband said, “We tried to lodge FIR first at Gotitoria police outpost and then at Chichli police station...but the police personnel lodged my elder brother and I in the lock-up and abused my wife.”
“Upset with the treatment of police and the rape, my wife ended her life,” he added.
The superintendent of police (SP) Ajay Singh said, “Police are interrogating the accused and further investigation is on.”
(With inputs from Monika Pandey)
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