On NHRC intervention UP Government finally pays Rs.1 lakh as relief in a case of police inaction (28.10.2014)
PRESS RELEASE
New Delhi, 28th October, 2014
On the intervention of the National Human Rights Commission, the Government of Uttar Pradesh, in a case of police inaction, has finally paid Rs.1 lakh as monetary relief to the father of a 16 year old girl who was missing and eventually found as a victim of sexual assault and acid injuries on the 1st September, 2012 leading to her death in District Mahamaya Nagar. The State Government has also informed that the amount of Rs.1 lakh is being recovered from the guilty Sub-Inspectors against whom departmental action had also been recommended.
The father of the girl, in his complaint to the Commission on the 6th September, 2012 had alleged that the local police was neither making any efforts to trace his daughter nor taking any action against the accused of FIR No. 267/2012 under Sections 363/366 IPC for Kidnapping and was demanding Rs.20 thousand as bribe.
During the course of persistent enquiries at various levels, the Commission found that the police personnel did not put the mobile numbers on surveillance despite having registered them in the case diary and for this laxity an adverse entry was made against him in the records. The then Station Officer, Police Station Hathras Junction was also found guilty and a strict warning had been issued to him for negligence in the recovery of the victim and the arrest of the accused.
The Commission observed that the complainant's daughter became victim of acid attack and lost her life due to negligence of police personnel who did not arrest the accused and delayed her recovery despite the registration of an FIR in the matter for which the State was liable.
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New Delhi, 28th October, 2014
On the intervention of the National Human Rights Commission, the Government of Uttar Pradesh, in a case of police inaction, has finally paid Rs.1 lakh as monetary relief to the father of a 16 year old girl who was missing and eventually found as a victim of sexual assault and acid injuries on the 1st September, 2012 leading to her death in District Mahamaya Nagar. The State Government has also informed that the amount of Rs.1 lakh is being recovered from the guilty Sub-Inspectors against whom departmental action had also been recommended.
The father of the girl, in his complaint to the Commission on the 6th September, 2012 had alleged that the local police was neither making any efforts to trace his daughter nor taking any action against the accused of FIR No. 267/2012 under Sections 363/366 IPC for Kidnapping and was demanding Rs.20 thousand as bribe.
During the course of persistent enquiries at various levels, the Commission found that the police personnel did not put the mobile numbers on surveillance despite having registered them in the case diary and for this laxity an adverse entry was made against him in the records. The then Station Officer, Police Station Hathras Junction was also found guilty and a strict warning had been issued to him for negligence in the recovery of the victim and the arrest of the accused.
The Commission observed that the complainant's daughter became victim of acid attack and lost her life due to negligence of police personnel who did not arrest the accused and delayed her recovery despite the registration of an FIR in the matter for which the State was liable.
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