A sub-inspector at Barkhera police station in Pilibhit was suspended on the charges of attempting to rape a 29-year-old woman.
The woman alleged that the accused had been harassing her with obscene comments over the phone for days before he attempted to rape her. The complainant alleged that after her parents passed away 15 years ago, she married a man with whom she lives in a village under Gajraula police station.
Her parents had willed their agricultural land in the name of her mentally unstable brother and her elder sister forcibly took away the brother with her in Bisalpur city, hoping to grab the land some day.
About a month ago, she filed a complaint against her sister with Barkhera police station and the accused sub-inspector Ram Gopal got her mobile phone number. After that, the S-I started making obscene phone calls to her almost every night. One day, he suggested that she should accompany him to Bisalpur to bring her brother back from her elder sister’s house. She agreed and after reaching Bisalpur on February 2, he asked her to accompany him to a flat in Patel Nagar and write a complaint to be filed at Bisalpur Kotwali police station.
She alleged that when they reached the flat, the S-I closed the door from inside, caught hold of her and attempted to rape her. However, she managed to escape from the flat.
“The S-I threatened to implicate me and my husband in a case if I disclosed the matter to anyone,” she alleged. Barkhera SHO Viresh Kumar said Ram Gopal was booked under Section 354A (physical contact and advances involving unwelcome and explicit sexual overtures) of IPC.
SP, Pilibhit, Jai Prakash said that Ram Gopal would remain suspended until proven innocent. In case allegations levelled against him were found to be false, his suspension would be revoked, or else further legal proceedings would be initiated against him.