Court orders rape case against cops

Chief Judicial Magistrate Vipin Sharma of Gautam Buddh Nagar on Friday ordered registration of a rape and robbery case against 21 police and PAC men on the complaint of a woman from Bhatta Parsaul village where farmers had protested against acquisition of their land.

The woman also alleged robbery by the men in uniform. The woman had alleged rape by police men and PAC on May 7 after farmers had a clash with the police. The woman allege that after the clash the male members left the village fearing arrest, and then police and PAC men raped the women in the village.

Though during initial visits by NHRC and NCW teams, the women had not alleged rape; later seven women had submitted affidavits with National Commission for Scheduled Caste alleging rape.

Earlier during a visit to the village, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi had alleged the police had raped village women.

The court ordered filing of FIR against the then Circle Officer, Dankaur, Uday Veer Singh Khokhar, then Phase-II Station Officer (SO) Anuj Chaudhary, the then Kakore SO Inder Kumar Badola, the then Dankaur SHO Rajeev Kumar, and then Dankaur Police Station beat-incharge Hemant Kishore Gautam.