UP: Prayagraj Police SI suspended, booked for raping Dalit woman in car

Assistant Commissioner of Police, Handia, Sudhir Kumar said the victim has in her testimony accused Jhanghai Police outpost in-charge Sudhir Kumar Pandey of raping her on September 21

Prayagraj: Police here have suspended a sub-inspector in connection with the rape of a Dalit woman who had gone to him with a complaint, an officer said on Tuesday.

Assistant Commissioner of Police, Handia, Sudhir Kumar said the victim has in her testimony accused Jhanghai Police outpost in-charge Sudhir Kumar Pandey of raping her on September 21. Pandey, a sub-inspector posted at Sarai Mamrej Police Station, was booked under IPC sections 376 (rape) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) as well as under the SC/ST Act on the basis of the woman’ complaint, Kumar said. Pandey is absconding.

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According to police sources, the woman was being harassed and getting death threats by some men, and had gone to the Jhanghai Police outpost in-charge with her complaint. On September 21 evening, sub-inspector Pandey called her to the police outpost.

On the pretext of going to arrest the men, he took her in a car and gave her a cold drink laced with sedatives and raped her when she was unconscious, they said. Police Commissioner Ramit Sharma has asked Handia ACP Sudhir Kumar to probe the matter.