The report published in The Telegraph on February 17, 2012

Patna, March 1: After teases, threats today compelled 17-year-old girl student of College of Commerce to visit senior superintendent of police (SSP) Alok Kumar’s janata darbar for the third time within a month.

After Kankerbagh police station registered a complaint against the five eve-teasers following her second visit to the darbar on February 16, the father of one of her tormentors — a policeman posted at Nalanda district — allegedly started threatening her with dire consequences. The SSP asked the traumatised girl to write a fresh application against the teaser’s father.

Visibly scared, she pleaded for peace before the SSP. Tears trickling down her cheeks, the girl said: “Sir, the condition has not changed much. The father of the boy is constantly threatening me with dire consequences. It is frightening. My mother is differently abled. Some people had come to my house yesterday and threatened us. I request you to do something about this.”

The girl, a first-year history student, said: “My family and myself are in a big trouble. The problem is just not ending. I had to go to Allahabad for an examination, but could not. My studies are getting hampered because of this mess. I am also embarrassed to come down here (the SSP’s darbar) time and again. But I hope things will be fine. I just want this problem to end for once and for all.”

The SSP gave the girl a patient hearing and told her: “Your FIR has been lodged at Kankerbagh police station. Write an application and action will be initiated after investigations,” the SSP told the girl.

A resident of Railway Colony in Fatuha, around 15km from here, the girl had alleged on her first visit to the SSP’s darbar on February 2 that she had to give up attending classes three months ago owing to eve-teasing. The prime accused was Pawan Chandravanshi, the son of the policeman allegedly threatening her now.

Balram Prasad, the station house officer (SHO) of Kankerbagh police station, said he did not have any idea about arrests after the FIR was lodged. But after the complaint was lodged, Prasad had promised immediate action.

“An FIR was lodged under Section 354. The offence is bailable. The accused could have taken bail from a court. I do not have any information about any arrest till now,” the officer said today.

Earlier, the SSP gave a dressing down to the Kankerbagh SHO when the former learnt from the girl that she was not entertained at the police station after her first visit to the darbar.

Narrating her plight on her second visit to the SSP’s darbar, she had said: “I went to the police station as you directed but no action was taken. They did not receive my application and asked me to come back later. I am supposed to go to Allahabad for a bank probationary officer examination on February 28 (which she could not). I am afraid that I can be attacked.”

The SSP called up the Kankerbagh SHO and asked: “Why haven’t you taken any action on the case so far?”

The SHO reportedly said the girl never visited the police station and he was searching for her desperately. But the traumatised girl had a different story to tell.

“I went to the police station but there were few officers then. A strongly-built officer had asked me to come later,” the girl said.

Taking her version seriously, the SSP had asked the SHO to take immediate action.