A girl facing starvation had sought help to get her father released from jail in Chandauli. She alleged that her father was behind the bars for about a year back just on the fabricated report of dowry harassment lodged by her maternal uncle.
To look into the allegation and also to provide help to the girl, the district administration not only constituted an enquiry under a deputy SP level officer but also provide security cover to the girl besides requesting the district magistrate of Chandauli, Kumar Prasant, to immediately give some financial relief to the victim. They also assured stern action against those who will be found guilty and also to get her father released immediately out of jail.
According to district police chief of Chandauli, Deepika Tewari, one Anushka Pandey, a resident of Bharthara Khurd hamlet of Kotwali area in Chandauli, had contacted the IG Zone of Varanasi on Wednesday and sought help to get her father released.
Tewari claimed that the girl told the officer that her maternal uncle Chandra Shekhar Tewari, a resident of Pipri hamlet of Kotwali area in Chandauli had lodged a case with the local police on December 15 last year against her father Om Prakash Pandey, in which he alleged that her father was involvement in dowry harassment.
Anushka claimed that the matter was initially probed by sub-inspector Indira Pratap Yadav, who without making fair probe, had arrested her father on January 31, earlier this year. Since then her father was lodged in jail and could not get bail.
Anushka said that the entire allegations made by her maternal uncle are false and that her father was innocent but still the cops connived and sent her father to jail. She also claimed to be facing
starvation as her father was lone earning member in her family.
Deepika claimed that IG Varanasi Zone directed her to take appropriate action so she immediately got the matter transferred for probe under deputy SP Sadar, Pramod Kumar Yadav. Deepika said that she also provided security cover to the girl so no damage could be done to her. She said that the DM Chanduli was also asked to provide financial relief to the girl till the truth will come out.