Police spat on me: Victim’s dad
Father was humiliated when he went to lodge complaint against gangrape
Krishnagiri: The anguished father of the disabled girl who was gangraped in Krishnagiri has alleged that a police inspector humiliated and spat on his face when he went to lodge a complaint against the shocking gangrape.In his poignant petition to the Chief Minister’s cell, the victim’s father narrated the brutal attack on his 16-year-old daughter who was gangraped on December 25, 2014.
He alleged that the the police officers in Anchetti and all women police station in Denkannikottai police stations refused to accept the complaint until child rights activists intervened.
The girl’s father alleged that on December 31, 2014, the Anchetti police station inspector summoned him to the station, abused and spat on his face. On the same day, the victim and her father were taken to another police station in Hosur where the girl was also abused. The hapless father and daughter were also forced to sign blank papers before they were allowed to go.
Four arrested for gang rape of disabled girl
Nine days after the shocking gangrape of a 16-year-old hearing and speech impaired girl, four men were arrested by the Krishnagiri police. V. Muthappa, 26, his friends B. Mathappa, 22, M. Rudrappa, 22, and B. Sithalinga, 23, all natives of Kochaiyur village, near Kodakarai, in Denkannikottai taluk of Krishnagiri district, were nabbed on Friday.On December 25, a 16-year-old girl who was returning home after delivering food to her father who was guarding the ragi crop from wild animals, was accosted by the gang. When she tried to escape, they attacked her with a wooden log and dragged her to a secluded place. They raped the minor girl by turns, the police said.
The gangrape came to light only after the girl’s mother saw the girl bleeding profusely from her private parts. She was admitted to the Denkannikottai government hospital.
Village elders asked her father not to give a police complaint and promised to get compensation for the girl. When her father lodged a police complaint, the station police officers refused to register it. Six days later, after the intervention of child rights activists and the association of differently-abled people, the police registered a case.
On Friday, over 200 disabled persons staged a protest at the taluk office at Denkannikottai against the gangrape of the speech and hearing impaired girl. Volunteers of the the Tamil Nadu association for the rights of all types of differently-abled people and caregivers (TARATDAC), demanded action against police officials for their delay in registering a case and also for abusing the victim and her parents for alerting the media.