Brinda Karat demands punishment for Delhi Police

CPI-M leader Brinda Karat on Saturday demanded severe punishment of the Delhi police officials who refused to lodge the FIR on April 15 when 5-year-old girl’s parents approached them to register she was missing.

Instead of filing report and begin inquiry, one police officer tried to bribe the father of the girl to keep silent. Karat demanded that the policemen who have violated the laws should be criminally prosecuted.

“The issue I would like to raise is the issue of the terrible brutal rape of this child in Delhi. It makes one wonder where Indian society is going to because the role of the Delhi Police in this entire incident has been absolutely outrageous and highly objectionable. Instead of immediately lodging the FIR and providing help to the family, the police did the opposite,” said Brinda Karat.

“They refused to file the FIR in the first instance. They tried to bribe the mother and the father of this brutalized child and they delayed the help, which was required. These policemen should have been suspended. What we are saying is that criminally prosecute them and send them to jail. Unless policemen who violate the law are sent to jail, you are not going to get a strong message to the police force,” Karat further added.

Leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj demanded strong actions against the brutal rape of a five-year-old in Delhi and asked for death penalty for those who molest children.

 “Such criminals should be hanged as early as possible. There should be shock treatment for such a sick mentality,” Sushma Swaraj said on Saturday.

Senior BJP leader Najma Heptullah calls for police reforms.

“When a law is made, the most important thing is to implement them. When we spoke about this, we also said that there is need to bring about change in the attitude. The first and the foremost duty is of the police forces. There should be proper police reforms,” Ms Heptullah said.

The 5-year-old minor girl was abducted on April 15 by accused Manoj Kumar and kept hostage in the ground floor of a same building in East Delhi’s Gandhi Nagar where the victim is also living with her family. She was repeatedly raped for two days before she was found by the family members.

Manoj Kumar, was arrested from Muzaffarpur in Bihar on Saturday by Delhi Police.

Meanwhile the doctor at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences on Saturday said that the five-year-old rape victim is stable and is responding to antibiotics.

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