After the shunting out of Rewari Superintendent of Police (SP) Rajesh Duggal, a woman assistant sub-inspector has been suspended over alleged ‘delay’ in taking action in the gangrape case of a 19-year-old woman.
The State Government has ordered to suspend ASI Hiramani of the Women's Police Station, Rewari even as the Haryana Police continued conducting raids on Tuesday in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and several other states to nab two key accused, including an Armyman, who are still at large, six days after the crime.
Rewari Superintendent of Police (SP) Rajesh Duggal had already been moved out of the district over alleged delay in action over the survivor's complaint.
"The orders to suspend ASI Hiramani of the Women's Police Station, Rewari were issued on Monday. She has been placed under suspension over allegations of delay in taking action on the complaint and negligence," a Rewari district police official said on Tuesday.
The victim's family has alleged that police failed to take prompt action on their complaint and delayed action citing jurisdictional issues between Rewari and Mahendragarh district units.
The family also alleged the Women's Police Station in Rewari, after registering a "zero FIR" in the case, delayed action and failed to promptly hand over the probe to the Mahendragarh police, under whose jurisdiction the incident took place.
Meanwhile, under pressure to nab the two absconding key accused six days after the 19-year-old woman from Rewari was gang raped, Haryana Police conducted raids in several states including Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.
Multiple teams of Haryana Police also went scouting for the absconders in Delhi, Rajasthan and Haryana.
“Raids are on at Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Delhi, U.P. and Haryana, a senior police official said late Tuesday evening.
The two key accused, Pankaj, an Army man and Manish, will be nabbed by in a day or so, he said.
Some local villagers claimed on Tuesday that some of the accused were roaming freely until Thursday afternoon after which police swung into action.
The villagers claimed that one accused Pankaj even attended a funeral in the village on Thursday. Had police acted early, the main culprits would have been nabbed much earlier, they said.
The case has prompted opposition parties to demand Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar's resignation on moral grounds, alleging the state had failed to protect its daughters.
Congress president Rahul Gandhi also slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his silence in the gangrape of a 19-year-old woman in Haryana.
The Congress chief on Tuesday took to Twitter to target the Prime Minister and said Modi's silence over the issue is "unacceptable".
"India hangs its head in shame as another one of its daughters is brutally gang raped. Prime Minister, your silence is unacceptable. Shame on a government that leaves India's women unprotected and afraid and allows rapists to walk free," he tweeted.
The Congress has even demanded imposition of President's Rule in the state, alleging that the BJP government had utterly failed to tackle the law-and-order situation.
The Haryana Police has so far arrested three men in the case, including Nishu, who, according to the police, is one of the three main accused.
The three arrested accused were remanded to a five-day police custody by a court in Kanina, Mahendragarh on Monday.
The 19-year-old college student, hailing from Rewari, was abducted from a bus stop in Kanina town of Mahendragarh district on last Wednesday when on way to a coaching class. She was allegedly drugged and gangraped at a room adjoining a tubewell in an agricultural field, the police had said.
Besides Nishu, the two other men arrested in the case have been identified by the Haryana Police's Special Investigation Team (SIT) as Sanjeev, a medical practitioner who checked on the woman's health condition after the crime, and Deendayal, the owner of the property where the woman was allegedly gang raped.
