Three Delhi traffic policemen were booked for allegedly sexually assaulting a property dealer in North Delhi’s Subzi Mandi area.
The three officers are said to have beaten up molested the victim in front of other traffic police officials who are yet to identified, and were on duty.
According to the sources, the officers were identified as ASI Balwan Singh, Constable Raju Kumar and Bharat. However, reportedly Singh and Kumar were sent to judicial custody while Balwan was later released on bail.
The incident took place on April 16 when the victim was intercepted by the officers for flouting traffic rules near north Delhi’s Phulbangash area. “The victim reportedly got into a scuffle with the officers following which he also demaged the Challan machine,” said sources.
“The officers following his action, started beating him up and took him to north Delhi’s Subzi Mandi police station,” added the source.
The victim in his complaint allegedly informed the police that he was sodomised and beaten up inside the traffic police station.
However, it is told that he did not report to the police at first but when his family came to know about the incident, they lodged a complaint in the police station.
Confirming the incident, DCP North Madhur Verma said, “Based on the complaint, we have registered a case of sodomy and arrested traffic police personnel concerned.
A case was registered in Subzi Mandi Police Station under IPC Sections 377 (unnatural offences), 341(Punishment for wrongful restraint), 343(Wrongful confinement for three or more days), 323(Punishment for voluntarily causing hurt), 365(Kidnapping or abducting with intent secretly and wrongfully to confine person), and 511(Punishment for attempting to commit offences punishable with imprisonment for life or other imprisonment).