A tribal girl in Gomia has written a letter to Jharkhand Chief Minister as well as lodged a police complaint against the owners of stone crusher units at Karmatard village under IEL police station in Gomia for allegedly raping her and others girls when they were working in evening shift in crusher units in Gomia block in Bokaro district for the last several years.
Sources said that an unnamed letter was sent to Chief Minister of Jharkhand and Bokaro Superintendent of police recently against owners of a crusher unit of Karmatard, on the basis of the complaint filed by the tribal girl, a native of Karmatard village of Bokaro district, Bokaro police chief Kartik S, said today.
The victim, in her letter, has accused all owners of Crusher units of raping her and other co-workers, the police official said, but did not divulge any further details. The alleged incident occurred between year 2017 and 2018, when the tribal girls were working in stone crushers unit at Karmatard village.
Based on her complaint through unnamed letter, a case would be registered under IPC sections 376 (rape), 377 (unnatural offence) and the relevant provisions of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act at IEL police station. The information was being forwarded to the Bokaro police chief for further investigation, sources said.
No one has been arrested in this connection. So far, four FIRs have been lodged by the police on the basis of separate letters from tribal girl, accusing owners of Crusher unit of sexually exploiting them. The police had earlier said the accused used to run a stone crusher units at the Karmatard village for last ten years in Gomia area of Gomia. Bokaro SP has said the police would talk to all the inmates of the crusher units.