DGP Dr RP Sharma has categorically denied the allegations levelled against him by the Kunduli rape victim and stated that the charges are “unfounded” and that he had on no occasion ever met or interacted in any manner whatsoever with the victim.
“The allegations are categorically and totally denied being false, fabricated, malicious and motivated”, said a statement issued by the DGP’s office here on Friday. It is further clarified that at no occasion the DGP has ever met or interacted in any manner whatsoever with the complainant of the case, a Press release issued from the DGP office added.
The release followed reports in certain sections of electronic media in which the minor rape victim of Kunduli in Koraput district has alleged that the DGP met her during her treatment at the SCB Medical College Hospital in Cuttack last month and asked her to sign in a plain paper offering a packet containing Rs 90,000.
The Class-IX student was allegedly gangraped by at least four security personnel in her native village on October 10. Even as a police case been registered and a Special Investigating Team (SIT) of the State Crime Branch is probing into it, the accused have not been identified as yet.
Alleging police torture and mental harassment to her and to her family members, the girl last month had reportedly attempted to commit suicide by consuming at least nine iron tablets together. In a critical condition, she was brought here to the hospital, where she was under treatment for nearly two weeks.
More than a month after she was discharged from the hospital on November 27, she on Friday told a TV channel that the DGP offering her the money tried to influence her. She also alleged that several police officers tried to intimidate her in the hospital, asking her to take money and close the chapter.