Ludhiana News- Residents of Chand Colony take strong exception at failure of police to arrest culprits

Ludhiana, September 16, 2013: The residents of Chand Colony took a strong exception at the failure of police to arrest the culprits who had been booked U/S 354 on 19th August.

While addressing press conference they informed that some miscreants misbehaved and passed obscene remarks on a promising BSc medical student while she was watering plants at her house on 9th July. On being objected they beat the family of the victim and threatened them. But disgustingly the PAU police instead of arresting the culprits put the parents of the victim in the lock up and forced upon them agreement under threats. The father of the girl is a Class IV employee at the PAU. After protest from the residents of the area the police registered a case against the culprits U/S 354 after 41 days. They did nether register the case U/S 452 against the culprits nor they register the case against the police official concerned for alleged illegal confinement of the parents of the victim. They also did not remove the cross case registered against the victim’s family. The victim put her case before the police commissioner on 2nd September. He marked the case to the ADCP 3. But despite several representations he did not take any action. To a deputation who met him on 13th September he assured that he will personally visit the spot on 14th September. But instead he has sent summons to the girl to appear before him on 18th September. The residents of the mohalla have taken this very seriously as the victim has given statement several times at the PAU police station, infront of ACP and the Commissioner police. Several women leaders including Jit Kumari – Secretary Punjab Istri Sabha, Veteran  Women Leader Dr Chanchal Gupta, Dr Narjit Kaur – Convener Working Women Forum, Avtar Kaur Advocate and Tejinder Kaur – Member Legal Cell Services demanded that the ADCP should fulfill his promise to visit the area and arrest the culprits.