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Dikshit, Delhi Police spar over rape victim
statement
Tuesday December 25, 2012 03:08:35 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Delhi Chief
Minister Sheila Dikshit has sought a "high-level independent
enquiry" against senior police officials for allegedly interfering
when the gang-rape victim's statement was recorded.
The Delhi Police quickly denied the allegation.
The chief minister made the appeal to Home Minister Sushilkumar
Shinde, to whose ministry Delhi Police reports.
In her letter, Dikshit cited a complaint from Sub-Divisional
Magistrate (SDM) Usha Chaturvedi, who had recorded the young
woman's statement at the Safdarjung Hospital.
Chaturvedi's complaint was forwarded to Dikshit by Deputy
Commissioner (East) B.M. Mishra.
Without taking names, Mishra said Chaturvedi faced "interference"
from assistant commissioners of police of the Defence Colony and
Vasant Vihar police stations and deputy commissioners of South
Delhi while recording the rape victim's statement.
According to informed sources, Chaturvedi alleged that the
officers tried to put pressure on her to record the statement as
per their wish.
Police also allegedly put pressure on her not to video record the
statement of the 23-year-old woman, whose Dec 16 gang-rape in a
moving bus has triggered widespread criticism of Delhi Police.
Dikshit told the home minister: "I suggest a high-level
independent enquiry considering the officers involved."
Delhi Police spokesman Rajan Bhagat said : "First, we want to ask
how a top secret letter reached the media. There should be a probe
where it was leaked from.
"There was no advice or pressure from our side (to the
magistrate). The SDM herself recorded the statement and any kind
of allegation is totally wrong," he said.
He said none of the officers were present when the statement was
recorded.
"The family gave in writing that they don't want videography. When
the statement was recorded, the officers, against whom allegations
have been levelled, were not present," he said.
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