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Police did not respond to helpline calls on
5-year-old's rape: Delhi CM
Friday April 26, 2013 09:57:47 PM,
Gaurav Sharma,
IANS
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New Delhi: It was a
desperate call for help on the women's helpline 181 from the
family of the raped five-year-old girl when the child went
missing, but the Delhi Police failed to take action, Delhi Chief
Minister Sheila Dikshit said Friday.
The Delhi government is to take up the matter with the union home
ministry, sources in the government said.
Speaking to IANS, Dikshit said: "There was a report which came
from our 181 women's helpline on the five-year-old child who was
raped. The 181 personnel kept speaking to the police, but they did
not take any action."
"They (police) did not respond," she added.
The Delhi government runs the helpline.
A Delhi government official told IANS that the girl's father had
called up the helpline several times to report the missing child,
who went missing April 15 and was found on April 17 from her
neighbour's room in east Delhi's Gandhinagar area.
She had been kidnapped, starved, tortured and brutally raped for
two days. The police had allegedly tried to hush up the matter by
trying to bribe the father of the child when the girl was found.
"The father of the child called up repeatedly complaining that
police was not lodging the FIR (First Information Report). We then
made several calls to the police and even to the Special CP
(Commissioner Police) in charge of the women's complaints cell,"
the official said.
Sources in the government confirmed to IANS that a report on this
matter is being sent to the union home ministry, to which the
Delhi Police reports.
The report could spell fresh trouble for Delhi Police Commissioner
Neeraj Kumar who was the target of public wrath over alleged
police apathy in the rape of the girl with demands made for his
resignation.
The brutality of the rape had triggered fresh protests in the
capital. Police suspended two of its officers for delayed
investigation and misbehaving with the girl's parents.
The Delhi government set up the 181 round-the-clock helpline to
aid women in distress in the wake of Dec 16, 2012 gang-rape in
Delhi.
Following the brutal gang-rape and the public outrage it
triggered, the Delhi chief minister had expressed her unhappiness
over the security situation in Delhi, especially relating to
women's safety, and targeted Delhi Police over its handling of the
protests.
She had written letters to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Home
Minister Sushilkumar Shinde over the functioning of Delhi Police
and said the police needed to be sensitised to women's issues.
(Gaurav Sharma can be contacted at gaurav.s@ians.in)
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