The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has been moved over the issue of gangrape of a minor girl in the office of Child Development Project Officer (CDPO) in Bhandaripokhari block in Bhadrak district.
Supreme Court lawyer and rights activist Radhakanta Tripathy has moved the commission seeking expeditious action to ensure justice to the victim.
Victim Sumi, (name changed), who appeared for Class-X examination recently from the Haramani High School, was gangraped by an employee of local CDPO office and his friend in the afternoon of On March 24.
The rape of a girl child on a holiday in the office of the CDPO poses a serious threat to human rights, Tripathy has contended in his petition. He has urged the NHRC to investigate the case and take appropriate action, provide psychosocial counselling to the victim, besides medical care and direction to the State Government to pay adequate compensation to the victim for the trauma she has suffered.