The Congress on Monday alleged that the State Government had suppressed the incident of gang-rape of three Dalit women of Rupapali village by police and goons under the Veden police station in Bargarh district in May 2016 and demanded that action be taken against all accused and neglecting police officers soon.
State Congress chief spokesperson Satya Prakash Nayak told a Press meet here, “Police personnel raped three Dalit women while taking them to the Veden police station where their husbands and relatives were detained earlier on May 22, 2016 in a caste conflict. On the way they raped the women in the nearby Deogaon jungle and then handed over them to goons. The goons then raped the women for 10 days in captivity. Though a elder brother-in-law of one the victims informed the Veden police, Bargarh SP and the Home Secretary, no action was taken. Then the man approached the State Human Rights Commission. Considering the petition, the SHRC directed the Bargarh SP to register a case and conduct investigation. Accordingly, a case has been registered against eight persons, including two police personnel, on September 23, 2019.”
Wanting to know why the case was suppressed for the last three years, another Congress leader Nishikant Mishra demanded that the Chief Minister make a clarification in this regard soon. He also wanted to know why the police have not yet nabbed those accused person even as two weeks have passed since an FIR was lodged.
“The Government is preaching 5T Mantras much. It should take stringent action against all culprits and the SP and the DG for trying to suppress the case again,” demanded Mishra.
Among others, MLA Suresh Kumar Routray, Jinesh Das, Chinmay Sundar Das and Deepak Mohapatra were present.