JAMMU: Presiding Officer Fast Track Court Kishore Kumar on Wednesday rejected bail application of Mohd Iqbal, the then SHO Khour, allegedly involved in rape at Police Station.
Meanwhile, IC Police Post Pallanwalla, PSI Vishal Dogra has been attached with Police Lines, Jammu for his alleged involvement in seeking money from father of the girl in lieu of her return to his family.
According to the police report, on 10th May 2016, complainant had filed a complaint before SDPO, Akhnoor stating therein that she on her own had gone with one Vicky Kumar on 27th September 2015 in order to solemnize marriage with him and went to Katra and stayed there. Next day, they went to Akhnoor Court and solemnized marriage there and again went back to Katra and thereafter on the same day in the evening, her husband, namely Vicky Kumar received a phone call from her cousin, who has deposed that cops of police post, Pallanwala had apprehended Vicky’s father and policemen were calling both of them there. On 29th September 2015, they went to Police Post, Pallanwala and came to know that her father had lodged a complaint against her husband (i.e. Vicky Kumar) and on the same day police took them to Police Station, Khour. Thereafter, police arrested her husband and a lady SPO took her in her residential quarter.
“She (lady SPO) asked me go to the room of SHO and obey his orders but I did not go”, the complainant said. Next day lady cop again took her to SHO’s room where she was raped.
On this complaint, FIR No. 45/2016 for offences under sections 376(2)(a)(iii) and 109 RPC was registered and investigation started.
After hearing Senior Advocate Sunil Sethi for the applicant, APP Vijay Sharma for the state, the Presiding Officer observed that the alleged offence committed by the accused seems to be very heinous.
“Being a responsible officer of a police station who is known as the custodian and protector of law by the society, has committed such a shocking act and if he is released on bail at this stage the confidence of a common man shall be shattered. I would like to say that the right to life and personal liberty of an individual is not more than that of the dignity of a woman and it does not grant a permit to the accused to commit such criminal acts that too of rape done by a SHO and from the perusal of the record it is revealed that accused /petitioner, named above, is arrested for the commission of offence under section 376(2)(a)(iii) and 109 RPC and the investigation is at the initial stage, the petitioner stands arrested for very heinous offences which carry the punishment uptill life and as such does not deserve bail at this stage. The arguments of the learned counsel for the petitioner/accused has no force in view of the gravity of the offence and also the prevailing lawlessness and the increasing crime of rape, molestation, etc.
The accused person, resorted to such activities which demean the psychology development of a woman.
The crime of rape is not only a crime against a person/or woman which it is a crime against the whole society.
The act of rape is a continuous act which always pricks and hurt the very soul and conscious of the person concerned”, the Presiding Officer observed. With these observations Court rejected the bail application.