Report of a around 24-–year-old woman allegedly gang-raped by two police personal, posted at Raipur Police Station, has left Dehradun police red-faced. The incident was reported at Raipur Police Station area by the victim’s relatives and a case was accordingly registered under section 376 of IPC in the same police station. Recently, a gang-rape of a woman was reported in Mussoorie in which a home guard was allegedly involved. The accused home guard was sent to Suddhowala jail. The accused in the present case is now being grilled, police said.
As per the complaint, some women police personnel were also present when the girl was gang-raped. The police also arrested and questioned her boy friend who was staying with her in a hotel on Sunday.
The survivor had alleged that she was gang- raped by the two policemen in the presence of several women police personnel. The allegation says she was thrown in the bushes after being gang-raped. However, police said she was in an inebriated state when they found her.
Meanwhile, Dehradun SSP Dr Sadanand Shankar Rao Date formed a team led by circle officer (traffic) Renu lohani. She is now investigating the case.
Raipur Police Station in-charge sub- inspector Abul Kalam said that based on CCTV footage, around 50 persons who were roaming around Sahastradhara Road on Sunday night were questioned regarding the case by a team comprising STF, SOG, Raipur and Nehru Colony police. Things are still murky, he said.
Though on a defensive mode with such frequent allegations casting slur on the image of the police as the custodians of law, some cops dismissed the charge as false and concocted.
Police sources said that victim along with her two other sisters had reached a hotel on Sahastradhara Road where she met her boy friend on Sunday night. All the three sisters had consumed liquor and Beer along with the boy in the hotel. Two sisters went home after some time, but the survivor was left with her boy friend. later, she was found started loafing alone, police said.
Police had interrogated her boy friend, thinking that he might have been involved in the matter. The police had conducted medical of the girl in Woman Doon Hospital. The medical report revealed that she had sustained injury in her private parts.