New Delhi, September 6: Delhi Police late on Friday announced
in a self-congratulatory tone through a press release that it has been able to
file a chargesheet in connection with the rape of a girl in Trilokpuri area
within 21 days of the registration of the complaint.
Nothing could be more shocking than the self-congratulatory
tone of the communiqué issued through PIB. The press note does not talk about
how it was after three days of continuous vociferous protests by the locals
that the police finally succumbed to the pressure and registered the case. Even
then one of the points that the family and relatives of the minor had been
requesting the police, that of adding another name to the complaint, was denied
much to the resentment among those protesting. They still don’t know why the
police was shielding the other person.
It also does not talk about how heinous the crime was, where a
6-year-old minor dalit girl was raped by the accused, Sammugan, literally right
across her house and in broad daylight. It does not show how the police has
been caught wanting in reducing or implementing law and order in the Capital
city of the country where the policing comes directly under the Union Home Ministry.
It just talks about an accused being arrested and currently
in judicial custody.
The 187-page charge sheet submitted by Crime Branch (the case
was transferred from Mayur Vihar Police Station to Crime Branch to somehow
reduce the widespread disapproval of the handling of the case) will be
presented before Honourable ASJ Hasan Anjar presiding over the Special Court
(POCSO Act), Karkardooma Courts, Delhi, who has fixed 10th September for
further proceedings.
Delhi Police says that during the investigation, all
evidence, including technical, were analysed and brought on record and it
mentioned many senior officers being attached to the investigation on a
day-to-day basis, some being of the level of ACPs and DCPs.
In the charge sheet, the police registered the case under the
Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act and Scheduled Caste and
Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, apart from others.
About the case it just said “The six-year-old was allegedly
raped by her neighbour in Trilokpuri” and “In view of the sensitivity of the
case, the charge sheet has been submitted within 21 days” which shows how indifferent
and detached the Delhi Police was in taking up the case.
This is the same case for which Anurag Kundu, Chairman of Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR), while expressing concern about the growing crimes against women and children in the city-state. “I feel terrible about the state of this city and how things keep going downhill.”