FIR against 4 accused of stripping, assaulting, filming CISF constable in UP

A Bhadohi court directed police to register a case against four people accused of assaulting, stripping and filming a CISF constable. The investigation will also examine his allegation that police ignored his complaint before arresting him in a molestation case.

In Short

• CISF constable claims police ignored his complaint for 24 hours
• Accused stripped and filmed him after damaging his motorcycle
• Investigation ongoing into police inaction and assault allegations

A court has ordered police to register a case against four people accused of assaulting, stripping and filming a Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) constable, who was later arrested in a molestation case, news agency Press Trust of India reported.

The constable alleged that police kept him at a station for nearly 24 hours and did not act on his complaint. Following the court order, police in Bhadohi district of Uttar Pradesh registered a case against the four accused under provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Information Technology Act.

Additional Superintendent of Police Shubham Agrawal told PTI that the alleged incident took place on August 12 in Sardar Bahuta village, under the Suriyawan police station area.

CISF Constable Ajay Yadav, 34, filed a petition before the Civil Judge (Senior Division) court on August 19. He alleged that he was returning home from the market on his motorcycle when Dhirendra Yadav, 26, Virendra Yadav, 23, Aman Yadav, 20, and Sarita Yadav, 37, intercepted him and damaged his motorcycle. All four are residents of the same village.

According to the petition, the accused abused and severely assaulted him. He suffered bleeding from the nose and had difficulty breathing after blood entered his respiratory tract. He also sustained a serious head injury and continued to experience dizziness.

Yadav alleged that Dhirendra, Virendra and Aman then dragged him behind their house, forcibly stripped him and recorded a video. Some villagers who witnessed the incident intervened, rescued him, helped him get dressed and sent him to the police station.

The petition said Yadav reached the police station at around 4 pm on August 12 to lodge a complaint but was made to sit there. He alleged that after he contacted senior police officials by phone later that evening, Sarita Yadav was called to the station at around 11 pm and a molestation case was registered against him.

Yadav further alleged that although he underwent a medical examination on August 13, police did not register his complaint. Instead, they arrested him in the molestation case and recorded the arrest nearly 24 hours after he had reached the station.

Agrawal told PTI that Civil Judge (Senior Division) Har Kiran Kaur heard the petition and ordered the registration of a case against all four accused on November 7. Police registered the FIR on Monday evening in compliance with the order.

The case was registered under BNS sections relating to an attempt to commit culpable homicide, voluntarily causing grievous hurt, damaging property, voluntarily causing hurt, intentional insult intended to provoke a breach of peace, and criminal intimidation involving threats of serious offences. Relevant provisions of the IT Act were also invoked.

The petitioner also alleged that police did not act on his complaint because Rajesh Yadav, a family member of Sarita Yadav, works as a Dial 112 driver and also drives the vehicle of the local police station in-charge, Agrawal said.

The ASP said Crime Inspector Buddhi Sagar Yadav was conducting a thorough investigation into the case registered following the court order. The probe will examine the allegations against the four accused and the constable's claim that police did not act on his complaint before arresting him in the molestation case.

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