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Nuh station house officer held for molesting 45-year-old woman
An investigation found a rape charge against the station house officer of Nuh city police station to be false, with the woman changing her statement to sexual harassment and criminal intimidation. The SHO has been arrested and suspended pending inquiry.
A day after a 45-year-old woman alleged that she was raped by the station house officer of Nuh city police station, an investigation has found the rape charge to be false following which the woman altered her statement and said the SHO sexually harassed her and threatened to kill her.
Police said based on her new statement, they have replaced rape charges in the first information report with sexual harassment and criminal intimidation charges and arrested SHO Bijender Rathee, said police. Rathee has been suspended pending a department inquiry, police said.
According to police, on Wednesday, the woman registered a case against Rathee alleging that he raped her several times. She alleged that he raped her in her house and even at the police station when she came to lodge a case related to a fraud about a month and half ago.
The woman alleged that Rathee, who took the complaint, started calling her on phone afterwards and also called her to the station several times on the pretext of recording her statement. She alleged that the SHO also visited her house several times on the pretext of investigation.
Varun Singla, superintendent of police, Nuh, said a team was formed and investigation was carried out. The woman was taken to court to record her statement under Section 164 Criminal Procedure Code but she refused to undergo medical examination to establish rape charges. “The woman later said she was not raped but molested by the SHO. She got in touch with the SHO over a case of fraud but he did not register an FIR and she held grudge against him. So she accused him of corruption and rape in anger. We have recorded her audio and video statements,” he said.
“The woman refused to undergo a medical examination and we have registered a case under Section 354A (sexual harassment) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of Indian Penal Code at the women police station in Nuh,” said Singla.
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