ALWAR: Alwar police did not learn its lesson even after a national uproar that followed when a girl was waylaid and gangraped in 2019 while the Thanagazi police delayed registering her FIR.
In the same year, 2019, Alwar police subsequently did not act on a similar gang-rape complaint of a 20-year-old girl who had gone to the district’s Malakhera police to file a complaint that she was raped and her videos were recorded. She was turned away around same time in 2019 when Alwar police were facing flak for mishandling Thanagazi case.
It was only when the video went viral and she again knocked at the door of police that the cops registered her FIR and arrested three persons. The girl in her FIR lodged on June 28 this year, had alleged that she had gone to complaint at Malakhera police station in May 2019, but cops did not act on the complaint.
Incidentally, the FIR in Thanagazi gang-rape was also registered only on May 2, 2019, despite the fact that crime took place on April 26, 2019. The fact that two gang-rape complaints were overlooked in the same time period, indicate that Rajasthan police woke up only when the videos began to circulate.
On Thursday, after police arrested two accused, Alwar police claimed that they were also probing the role of the staff that was posted at the Malakhera police station in May 2019. SP Tejaswini Gautam told TOI that the role of cops who allegedly did not act on the rape-survivor’s complaint is also being probed.
“A DySP rank officer is investigating both the rape case as well as the role of the police station,” she said.
Alwar police said that they will summon the record of Malakhera police station. Meanwhile, the two rape accused Vikas Chaudhary and Bhuru Singh Jat, and Gautam Saini who sent her a video clip of the rape and started blackmailing her, were arrested on Thursday. The accused were produced before an Alwar court on Friday where they were sent to two-day police remand.
(The victim’s identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme court directives on cases related to sexual assault)
In the same year, 2019, Alwar police subsequently did not act on a similar gang-rape complaint of a 20-year-old girl who had gone to the district’s Malakhera police to file a complaint that she was raped and her videos were recorded. She was turned away around same time in 2019 when Alwar police were facing flak for mishandling Thanagazi case.
It was only when the video went viral and she again knocked at the door of police that the cops registered her FIR and arrested three persons. The girl in her FIR lodged on June 28 this year, had alleged that she had gone to complaint at Malakhera police station in May 2019, but cops did not act on the complaint.
Incidentally, the FIR in Thanagazi gang-rape was also registered only on May 2, 2019, despite the fact that crime took place on April 26, 2019. The fact that two gang-rape complaints were overlooked in the same time period, indicate that Rajasthan police woke up only when the videos began to circulate.
On Thursday, after police arrested two accused, Alwar police claimed that they were also probing the role of the staff that was posted at the Malakhera police station in May 2019. SP Tejaswini Gautam told TOI that the role of cops who allegedly did not act on the rape-survivor’s complaint is also being probed.
“A DySP rank officer is investigating both the rape case as well as the role of the police station,” she said.
Alwar police said that they will summon the record of Malakhera police station. Meanwhile, the two rape accused Vikas Chaudhary and Bhuru Singh Jat, and Gautam Saini who sent her a video clip of the rape and started blackmailing her, were arrested on Thursday. The accused were produced before an Alwar court on Friday where they were sent to two-day police remand.
(The victim’s identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme court directives on cases related to sexual assault)
