A District Administration officer has been booked for allegedly molesting a 16-year-old girl in Raigarh district, Superintendent of Police (SP) Sanjeev Shukla informed on Thursday.
“A case has been registered against then Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM), Kharsiya region, AK Dhritlahre based on the report of a probe team that investigated the girl’s accusations against the Officer,” he said.
According to the police, on June 15, a minor girl had made complaint to Raigarh Collector and the SP alleging that Dhritlahre had molested her several times during past months while she was employed as a maid at his official residence under Kharsiya police station limits.
The In-charge Collector Nilesh Kshirsagar while taking note of the complaint had constituted a four-member joint team comprising both administrative officers and police to conduct the probe into the complaint.
Meanwhile Dhritlahre was transferred to District Collectorate from Kharasiya.
“Based on the findings and report of probe team, Dhritlahre has been booked under Section 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) of IPC and Section 8 of POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offence),” the SP said adding girl would be very soon presented in the court for making a statement.
Shukla also informed that earlier Dhritlahre had lodged a report about missing of some gold bangles from his house and based on the report police had summoned the girl for questioning.
The girl had alleged that she was she was mentally and physically tortured by Kharsiya police during probe into the alleged theft and when they did not find any evidence against her, she was let off, he said.
Shukla has also directed Sub-Divisional Officer of Police, Kharsiya, Puja Agrawal to probe the allegations of police atrocity on the girl by dragging her into a fake case on SDM’s report and role of police into it.
“If the allegations turn out to be true, then action will be taken against the Station House Officer, the SP mentioned.