The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Wednesday was told that there was information of rape of two relatives of a Punjab Raj Bhawan employee in Murthal during the Jat reservation stir.
During the resumed hearing before the Division Bench of Justice SS Saron and Justice Gurmit Ram, the Amicus Curiae Anupam Gupta claimed that there was information about rape of two women, who happen to be relatives of a Punjab Raj Bhawan employee. The Haryana police found itself on the receiving end as the Amicus Curiae Anupam Gupta lambasted the police for its inaction against the perpetrators of assault on women, reports by Judicial In charge at district level, marked Haryana police inefficient and negligent.
Seeking action against the top police officers, Gupta said that action should be taken against top police and district administrative officers for not coming out with the truth.
Finding faults with the efforts being made by the police, Gupta asserted that ever since the initiation of proceedings in the matter, information on rapes was trickling in, including reports hovering around the rape of two relatives of a Raj Bhawan employee.
He raised question on the inability of the police to contact the reporter, who had published the interview of a victim. He also objected to the notice sent to journalists by the special investigation team for sharing information instead of contacting them. To add on the humiliation, the reports filed by the District judicial heads brought more embarrassment for the Haryana police, as the judicial officers in their reports have expressed a sorry state of affairs for the Haryana Government.
The status report filed by the judicial officers say that they were compelled to leave their residences for taking shelter in transit houses as the police failed to provide them security. And bringing the matter to the notice of the top cops even did not help. A woman judicial officer, who lost her mother-in-law during the stir, was not provided additional force to accompany the grief stricken family to the hospital or the cremation ground.