Mumbai: The Bombay Excessive Courtroom has directed the superintendent of police (SP) and extra superintendent (Addl SP) to conduct an inquiry right into a head constable pressuring a minor rape survivor’s mother and father to withdraw the case. The courtroom discovered the pinnacle constable Holkar’s conduct “suspicious,” noting that he was pressuring the sufferer’s household as an alternative of defending them.
Justice Madhav Jamdar remarked on March 18 that the pinnacle constable’s behaviour was regarding, because it hindered the administration of justice. The courtroom was contemplating a bail plea filed by a person accused of repeatedly raping a 10-year-old woman in Pune underneath the POCSO Act.
Regardless of the mother and father expressing their want to withdraw the case, Justice Jamdar discovered substance within the FIR and summoned them to courtroom on March 13. Discovering the mother and father underneath immense stress, the choose determined to listen to them privately in his chamber.
Within the chamber, the mother and father revealed the stress they confronted from the accused’s relations and different villagers, main them to relocate. The extra public prosecutor, SS Kaushik, knowledgeable the courtroom that Holkar was uncooperative and supplied false solutions.
Responding to the courtroom’s directives, SP Pune (Rural) Pankaj Deshmukh and extra SP Ramesh Chopade assured an inquiry towards Holkar and pledged “mandatory and acceptable motion.”
The courtroom instructed the police to make sure the mother and father’ security, although they expressed issues about their livelihood being affected by police presence. Deshmukh assured the courtroom of defending the sufferer’s members of the family when mandatory. The HC scheduled additional hearings on April 2.