The father of an alleged rape victim had to run from pillar to post for filing an FIR.
The victim’s family shuttled between Dehri-on-Sone in Rohtas and Mohania in Kaimur for two days to register the complaint against the accused. The complaint was finally lodged at the Dehri police station on the directive of a local court on May 4.
The 15-year-old girl’s statement was recorded by Dehri-on-Sone sub-divisional police officer Kamla Kant Prasad on Monday and she was examined at the sub-divisional hospital on Tuesday, a week after the incident.
The victim, a Class IX student of a government school at Mohania in Kaimur district, was kidnapped by two youths — Ravi Kumar and Mukesh Kumar — before raping her for four days at Pahleja village under the Dehri-police station, about 165km west of Patna.
The 15-year-old girl told the SDPO that she had come to the house of her sister’s in-laws from her native place in Kaimur district about a month ago to attend a wedding in the family.
On April 26, she was kidnapped by two youths travelling in a car around 5am. She tried to raise an alarm but was made to keep a silence as the abductors had threatened her with dire consequences.
The girl further told the police officer that she was taken to a barrage — police think it’s Indrapuri barrage — on the outskirts of the sub-divisional town in a white car and raped by the duo, who earlier used to harass her on one pretext or the other whenever she ventured out from her relative’s house.
“The abductors later took me to a house and confined me to a room where I was raped by the accused from April 26 to April 30. Finding no help from anywhere, I persuaded them to release me on the promise that I would not disclose anything about the incident,” she told the SDPO.
She said that she was dropped by the two accused near her relative’s house around 7pm on April 30.
“I narrated the whole incident to my parents, who had come to Pahleja after receiving information about my disappearance,” she added.
In her complaint submitted to the court, she said that on April 28 (around 11am), her father along with a few relatives visited the Dehri police station to lodge a missing case.
But the officer on duty, Shivraj Ram, not only refused to entertain the complaint but also drove him out of the police station premises, the complaint alleged.
The girl’s father alleged that the police officer treated him as if he was the culprit and asked him to go to Mohania to do the same as his native place came under the jurisdiction of Mohania police station.
The next day (April 29), he visited the Mohania police station and handed over the written complaint, he said.
He said the police officer deputed at the Mohania police station, around 70km from Dehri, advised him to get the complaint registered at the Dehri police station as the place of occurrence came under the latter’s jurisdiction. “I again visited the Dehri police station but to no avail,” he alleged.
Finally the girl’s father decided to approach the court and lodged a complaint case in the Dehri sub-divisional court on May 2, which issued a directive to the Dehri police station house officer to lodge an FIR under sections 366A, 376 and 354 of the Indian Penal Code.
The victim’s father, a farmer by profession, said that the case (No. 241) was lodged on May 4 after the intervention of the court.
He said that had the police swung into action, his daughter would not have to undergo the mental agony and trauma.
He demanded stern action against the officials, who were reluctant to register complaints at the police stations.
“I have already apprised the SDPO Prasad of the matter,” he told The Telegraph on the phone from Kaimur on Tuesday.
Rohtas superintendent of police Vikas Berman said: “I am not aware of any such incident. I will certainly look into the matter. Suitable action will be taken action the police officer concerned, if the allegations are found to be true.”
However, no one has been arrested in the case.
