The Saharanpur district magistrate suspended the services of the woman superintendent and cook of the girls’ correctional centre in a molestation, beating and sexual abuse case.
The manager of the centre was barred from entering it as an inquiry was pending against him, said the district magistrate.
The action was taken after receipt of a complaint against the manager of Saharanpur Girls’ Correctional Centre.
The district magistrate has asked the senior superintendent of police to depute a woman investigating officer (IO) to probe the “sexual abuse” charges levelled by the victim. The district magistrate has also instructed the SSP to lodge an FIR against the manager of the centre.
In a complaint to Sub-Divisional Magistrate (Sadar) Kirti Singh, a girl inmate of the reformative centre had levelled allegations of molestation, harassment, intimidation, threat, beating and sexual abuse against the centre’s manager, VP Singh, and the woman superintendent.
The aggrieved girl inmate had written a two-page letter giving graphic details of what was happening at the Saharanpur Girl’s Correctional Centre.
In the letter, the inmate mentioned that she was being “sexually abused” by the manager.
“The manager told me to come home. The manager also told me that in exchange for a favour, I will be released from the centre. I was beaten by the cook of the centre for not fulfilling the manager’s demand. The woman superintendent was also hand in glove with the manager. The manager also threatened me that nothing will happen to him, if I put up matters before the higher-ups,” the complainant stated in the letter.
Based on the complaint, a probe team led by SDM (Sadar) Kirti Singh visited the correctional centre to investigate the incident. The SDM (Sadar), after conducting the investigation, submitted the report to Saharanpur District Magistrate Dinesh Chandra, sources said on Sunday.
Thereafter, as per the directive of the district magistrate, the services of two employees were suspended. Whereas suspecting the manager’s involvement in the incident he was asked not to visit the correctional centre. The manager was barred from entering the centre as an inquiry was pending against him.
The probe committee’s report has confirmed that assault and ill-treatment charges were true. On June 20, an FIR was registered.