Decrying police inaction against the locals who molested a Class VII girl student, the victim and her mother from Gaithipur under the Balikuda police limits in Jagatsinghpur district have sought intervention of the State Human Rights Commission to ensure justice to her.
According to the victim’s mother Sabita Padhi, who has four shops at Gaithipur Bazaar, her fellow villagers Jhatu Das, Bubu Biswal, Badal Biswal, Papu Biswal, Rama Biswal and Don Biswal, among many others, have been misbehaving with her and her daughter after she lodged a complaint with the police against them in March this year accusing them and her cousin of trying to record her land in their names fraudulently.
“Since then, the police are sitting on my complaint. Because of political influence, they are not taking any steps to nab them, giving them the chance to threaten me to withdraw my FIR,” alleged Sabita.
She further alleged that these antisocials have also been misbehaving with her daughter and even attempted to rape her once. “They are also threatening my husband and son saying they would eliminate them,” she said.