Vice Chairman National Commission for SCs Raj Kumar Verka on Wednesday meeting the victim at Ludhiana.
City Air News photo: Mandeep Kumar Verma
Ludhiana, April 17, 2013: Police Commissioner of Ludhiana Ishwar Singh has placed under suspension three police personnel for not acting on a complaint of a Dalit woman who was allegedly thrashed in public view on April 3 by a few residents of Basant Nagar locality, on Daba Road here.
The Punjab police personnel who have been placed under suspension are; SHO Police Station Daba Jatinderjit Singh, ASI Jaswant Singh and head constable Avinash Kumar.
It was on Tuesday that the police had registered an FIR in this regard and arrested three persons. Still, fourth one is absconding. Police are on toes to arrest the fourth accused too. But, the police came into action only after passage of twelve days of occurrence of the incident, which had already blown up out of proportions. In-fact, the victim (around 30) had produced a video footage of being beaten up publicly before the Police commissioner.
Police have already constituted a special investigation team (SIT) to further investigate this case, sources revealed.
The cause of occurrence of the incident is stated to be that the victim was asking her money worth Rs. 20,000 from one of the four accused following which the person who had taken money from her alongwith his three friends allegedly thrashed her publicly on April 3.
Meanwhile, Vice Chairman National Commission for SCs Raj Kumar Verka visited here on Wednesday and met the victim. During this meeting, the victim narrated the whole story to Verka. She alleged that she was allegedly beaten up with rods and sticks.
Verka also held a meeting with Commissioner of Police, Ludhiana Ishwar Singh and Deputy Commissioner Rahul Tewari at circuit house here today and asked for the report. Verka expressed satisfaction over the investigations.
Rajesh Bagha, Chairman of the Punjab State Commission for SCs alongwith other members also called on victim. He said he had summoned ADGP Crime to his office at Chandigarh April 30 to give him a detailed report about this case and also the overall crime against women and Dalits in Punjab.
Rajesh Bagha, Chairman of the Punjab State Commission for SCs in Ludhiana to meet the victim.