The father of a woman who was reportedly gang-raped has alleged that the Crime Branch –Criminal Investigation Department (CB-CID) is stalling arrests of remaining accused persons and harassing the victim and her family.
He has warned that he will sit on a protest outside the chief minister’s residence if the remaining accused in the kidnap and gang-rape case are not arrested by February 20.
It is to pertinent to mention here that on May 21 2019, a woman resident of Ikkad Khurd village in Haridwar district was reportedly kidnapped and held hostage for a month. She was also allegedly gang-raped while in captivity. Talking to media persons at the Press Club here on Monday, the victim's father said that his daughter was kidnapped and taken to Saharanpur where she was held captive for a month and gang-raped.
Later, she managed to contact him over the phone and somehow escaped her captors and reached Roorkee. The father alleged that when he reached Gangnahar Kotwali, his report was not recorded for several days. After a lot of struggle, the police arrested an accused Genghis Khan. A CB-CID investigation was ordered into the case.
Meanwhile, the victim gave birth to a baby at AIIMS in Rishikesh. The victim’s father averred that there too, the CB-CID harassed her in the name of investigation and also took a sample for DNA. After the arrest of Khan, the others accused in the case including Mubarik, Shabnam alias Guddo and two others have not been arrested so far.
The victim’s father further alleged that the CB-CID is pressurising them under pressure from a leader. He warned that if the remaining accused are not arrested by February 20, he will go on a hunger strike outside the CM residence until justice is done.