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| As J&K "sexy" cops go unpunished, victims rue the day they joined police | | | BHARAT BHUSHAN
Early Times Report
JAMMU, OCT 31: As some police officers, who faced sexual harassment allegations, have gone unpunished in the state, victims rue the day they joined the police force.
The need of the hour is to reopen their cases to help restore the victims' confidence in law and order machinery.
In J&K, the alleged cases of sexual harassment of women, or lady cops, by senior police officers have never become the focus of attention.While Rathore -- a retired Haryana police chief -- was dragged to court for allegedly molesting a budding tennis player in 1990 and then creating circumstances that drove her to commit suicide, probes
in J&K were either left half-way or dropped.A lady cop underwent severe mental torture for daring to resist the advances of her commandant (now retired) at the Chhani Himmat-based armed police complex.
Her husband is too a cop. The duo had made several complaints to senior police officers, including the then IGP. Though no action was initiated against the commandant, the lady cop was transferred to the security wing and deployed at the Bhatindi residence of Dr Farooq Abdullah.
Speaking to this scribe, she had given a detailed account of her alleged sexual harassment by the commandant and the mental torture she had undergone.
After her transfer, a lady Inspector, who worked in the commandant's office, had become the victim of his sexual harassment. She too had lodged a written complaint against the commandant to the IGP. The lady Inspector was mentally so depressed that she had proceeded on leave to avoid meetings with the commandant for day-to-day official work. She alleged that some lady cops, who were very "close" to the commandant, carried his "love" messages to her and other victims. In return, the commandant allowed them to remain absent from duty and
use official vehicles for personal works.There were several other complaints of sexual harassment against the commandant. As the complaints piled up against him, so did his sexual desires. However, all such cases against him were closed after he retired.
Another senior police officer also used the similar tactics to allegedly trap the lady cops who worked under him. He would call the lady cops to his office several times a day without any work. Complaints were made against him too. Another senior police officer, who had been on deputation to the Centre, also enjoyed the "bad man" reputation among the lady cops.A male Inspector, during his tenure as SHO of Billawar police station, had developed intimate relations with a woman, who was in the lockup over a trivial crime. The woman was later got treated in a Kathua hospital for a "certain" disease. She was extremely poor and belonged to a remote Billawar village.
In a cocktail-dinner held at the police guest house here some time back, a "very" senior police officer had made a near successful attempt to pat the wife of his junior. The couple had later left in protest.
There are dozens of such cases in Kashmir. Some were proved, but in many cases the accused went scot free.This was the right time for the police headquarters to reopen such cases against police officers followed by exemplary punishments. A victim said though some police officers gave them respect, the attitude of few was not "good" towards them.
Another said she sometimes rued the day she had joined the police force. |
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