After around a year, policemen who exhibited negligence on duty in providing help to a 19-year-old gang rape victim have finally been punished; two SIs and three Inspectors have been penalized.
The gang rape victim who became victim to four men late in the evening on October 31, 2017 at Railway tracks near GRP Police station found it impossible to lodge her complaint after police re-directed her from one police station to other which further augmented her atrocity.
The inhumane attitude by police attracted the ire across the country resulting in transfer of the then IG and Railway SP. The orders of punishment which was issued after year long enquiry have given compulsory retirement to two Sub -Inspectors RN Tekram who was posted at MP Nagar and Bhawani Prasad Uike posted with GRP at the time of the incident.
Punishment for two Inspectors Habibganj SHO Ravindra Yadav and MP Nagar SHO Sanjay Singh Bains came in the form of refraining from salary increments, Yadav would not get two salary increment while Bains would not get one salary increment.
GRP TI Mohit Saxena has given punishment of making him on minimum wages.