CID Brings 2-Year-Old Justice To Rape Victim
Local inspectors who have been shielding the police constable were responsible for the premature closure of the case, as well the false prosecution of the victim, say the CID.
Hyderabad | 13th September 2012
More than two years after the rape case of a married woman was registered and wrongly closed, the Crime Investigation Department unraveled the facts and arrested a police constable and his associate.
According to CID, the case of surrounding the rape of a married woman took place on the intervening night of July 13-14th, 2010, in Vinukonda. The accused - Orsu Venkatesh, 22 - who was then working as a gunman of the Vinukonda SI of Police, came to the victim's house during the odd hours along with Sk Saida, a Special Police Officer, under the pretense of an enquiry into a petition she had filed against her husband. Saida took the victim's husband out under some pretext, thus providing Venkatesh with the opportunity to committ the heinous offence of rape. Then he then left after threatening the victim not to reveal the incident to anyone.
The CID proclaimed that the Vinukonda Police of Guntur district had not investigated the case properly, and that eventually the case was closed by the local police. The local inspectors who investigated the case have been shielding the police constable, and were the ones to recommend the closure of the case. They went to the extent of prosecuting the victim on the plea that she had earlier given a false complaint. It was found that the charge against the SI was dropped after the case was closed.
Sensing that the case was closed wrongly, the CID took over the case and, with further investigation, established the commission of rape by the police constable including forensic evidence and role played by the Special Police Officer in preventing the husband from rescuing his wife from sexual assault.
The CID unraveled the entire episode and finally arrested both the accused on Wednesday. Both the accused are being produced before the Jurisdictional Magistrate for Judicial Remand. Further investigations into the case are on, said the CID. (INN)
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