The Supreme Court docket on Friday admitted a grievance filed by a Pune-based NGO in opposition to a senior police inspector (now retired) with Pune rural police for remaining listening to, who had allegedly didn’t register a grievance after being approached by a 14-year-old schoolgirl who complained of gang rape.
The matter is listed for remaining listening to on March 12, 2025, as said on the SC web site. Advocate Shantanu Adkar, who represented Sakhi, the NGO, confirmed that SC has listed the matter for remaining listening to.
In line with the grievance filed by the 14-year-old sufferer woman, in February 2013, she was kidnapped by 4 children whereas she was on her approach to faculty. They took her to a secluded spot. Right here one in every of them allegedly raped her whereas the opposite three accomplices helped him.
The sufferer woman then went to the police station, which was then beneath the agricultural police (now in Pune metropolis police jurisdiction) for lodging the gang rape grievance. However two officers of the rank of senior police inspector and assistant police inspector on the police station had despatched her again house twice—on February 26 and February 28, 2013—and refused to file a grievance saying that she ought to deliver her dad and mom to the police station. The woman had alleged that the accused took benefit of the delay in lodging the FIR and escaped.
The then superintendent of rural police had ordered an inquiry into this matter. The inquiry carried out by a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) discovered the 2 officers responsible. The inquiry report was submitted to the particular courtroom in Pune the place a case beneath Part 66 (A) of Safety of Youngsters from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, was filed.
In the meantime, the 2 cops approached the Bombay Excessive Court docket. The assistant police inspector was held responsible, however the senior police inspector was let off by the HC bench which noticed there was no proof of negligence in opposition to him.
Sakhi, the NGO challenged the HC order within the SC in 2016 via lawyer Makarand Adkar. The SC admitted the NGO’s attraction and issued a discover to the senior police inspector, who later retired from service. He had filed an affidavit earlier than the SC denying the allegations in opposition to him.
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