Gurugram: 3 held for minor’s sexual assault after father moves SC

Petition alleged police ignored evidence and CCTV; probe under lens after IO’s bribery arrest, with calls for an independent agency inquiry.

The Gurugram police on Saturday arrested three people, including two housemaids, for allegedly sexually assaulting a three-year-old girl at the residential complex of their employer in Sector 54. The action comes less than 24 hours after the girl’s father filed a petition in the Supreme Court, seeking a court-ordered probe, alleging inaction by Gurugram police in the incident.

Gurugram: 2 women domestic help, male accomplice arrested for sexually assaulting minor girl

Investigators said the woman, who also used to take care of the victim, and her husband, who is the prime accused, came from Nadia in West Bengal, while the other woman was from Etah in Uttar Pradesh.

Sandeep Turan, Gurugram police public relations officer, said the three of them lived in a slum cluster in Sector 55, Ghata. Turan said sections 115(2) (voluntarily causing hurt) and 137 (2) (kidnapping from lawful guardianship) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita were invoked in the case. “Section 6 (aggravated penetrative sexual assault) has been replaced with Section 10 (aggravated sexual assault), while Section 17 (abetment) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act in the case has been retained,” he said.

Deputy commissioner of police (east) Gaurav Rajpurohit, ACP (Sadar) Amit Bhatia and inspector Satender, station house officer of Sector 53 police station did not respond to calls and messages from HT, seeking to know what evidence led to their arrests on the day.

The case was mentioned before Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant on Friday by senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, who requested an urgent hearing. “It is a horrific sexual assault on a four-year-old girl in Gurugram a month ago where the maid is involved. The child has recounted everything and the case has been sent to the magistrate under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act, but to date, the Gurugram police have neither collected CCTV footage nor arrested a single person.”

The CJI said, “We will list it on Monday,” before asking Rohatgi if he had approached the high court in the matter.

Rohatgi said, “In a case of this nature, a message should go from the highest court of the land. The father is an employee in Gurugram and when they approached me, I advised them to file a petition under Article 32 of the Constitution.”

Article 32 of the Constitution guarantees citizens the right to move the Supreme Court for the enforcement of fundamental rights and empowers the court to issue writs for their protection.

The girl’s father filed a police complaint on February 4, alleging that the two housemaids and a male accomplice had sexually assaulted the girl on the society’s premises between December 2025 and January. An FIR was registered against the trio under Section 65(2) of BNS and sections 6 and 17 of the Pocso Act at the Sector 53 police station on the same day. Although the trio was rounded up for questioning, the police didn’t arrest them, citing a lack of concrete evidence against them.

The investigating officer in the case, sub-inspector Dabod Rani, was also arrested by the Haryana state vigilance and the anti-corruption bureau while accepting a bribe of ₹25,000 on the Sector 53 police station premises on March 13.

The father contended in his petition that the Gurugram police neither collected the CCTV camera footage nor secured the area where the incident was suspected to have taken place.

Rohatgi, with whom counsels Pranay Shirdhar Chitale and Namisha Gupta also appeared, urged that a message should go from the apex court in the matter in which maids are involved.

Chitale told HT that even though the Gurugram police have made the arrests, the investigation was shoddy and they will continue with their prayer before the apex court on Monday for handing over the investigation to an independent agency.