Sep 20, 2012: Daughters' molestation charge against cop leads to ruckus

Soumittra S Bose, TNN | Sep 20, 2012, 03.33AM IST

NAGPUR: Sakkardara police had to endure prolonged drama as two teenage siblings approached cops with complaint of sexual exploitation against their father who is an assistant police inspector posted at Nagpur rural police control room. The officer was suspended a year back but was reinstated around a fortnight back.

The 16-year-old step-daughter of the officer claimed she was changing clothes at their rented house at Om Nagar on Wednesday when her father entered the room. The girl alleged the cop made unexpected advances towards her. She raised an alarm and rushing out of the room. The teenager approached her elder sister for help. The sisters, with help of a neighbour, contacted a social worker who brought the girls to police station where a section of the media too reached subsequently. The matter fizzled out soon as the girls developed cold feet and left the police station without lodging a complaint.

Sources in the police station said the older sister too was levelling allegations that father had forced himself upon her too. She claimed she had to stave off his advances a number of times. She further claimed that the officer had turned violent when his advances were thwarted on one occasion. The sisters were also accompanied by one of their brothers. The cops were in the process of registering an offence of outraging of modesty.

The twist came at this point when the girls' ailing mother, admitted at a private hospital, asked the daughters to refrain from going ahead. Sources in Sakkardara police station said the girls' mother felt insecure that husband may not continue her treatment if the girls went against him. It is also learnt that the official had been threatening the girls and their brother too against taking any action against him.

Superintendent of police, Nagpur rural, Manoj Sharma too said he had taken action against the officer after finding him indulging in malpractices. "I had reinstated him only because he pleaded for help due to wife's deteriorating health some days back. There was restlessness in him and I found him mentally disturbed," said Sharma. He added that the city police should not spare the officer in case the daughters lodged the complaint.

Senior inspector Annasaheb Lengde of Sakkardara police station said an entry had been made in the station diary about the incident. "We were registering the offence but the girls said that they are no more keen to press the charge. The sisters left the police station assuring to return shortly but did not come back," he said. Some sources said even a section of Sakkardara police had cajoled the sisters to refrain from registering offence against father but it could not be confirmed.
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