New Delhi:- Fearing for her life, a 36-year- old woman has knocked the doors of Delhi High Court seeking legal action against a senior Delhi Police officer who married her despite being already married with two sons.
The woman, a Delhi resident, narrated her tale of woes in a petition before Justice S P Garg, alleging that the 42-year old “influential” police officer had threatened that not only her but her son would also be harmed if she complained.
She approached the high court after the trial court refused to entertain her plea seeking registration of an FIR against the official for allegedly committing offences like causing grievous hurt, attempting to murder, wrongful restraint and confinement, outraging her modesty and even exploiting her physically.
Agreeing to hear the woman’s petition in July, the high court has summoned the record from the trial court.
The plea states that as a divorcee, the woman had gone to the Moti Nagar police station here on February 24, 2012, to lodge a complaint against a man with whom she had developed live-in relationship after separation from her husband who used to beat her up.
With the police refusing to register a First Information Report (FIR) on “flimsy” grounds, she visited the police station regularly where she met the then Station House Officer (SHO) who also allegedly kept dilly-dallying, her plea said.
Later, the SHO got the FIR registered against that man, but by then he had reportedly fled from India.
The petition further alleged that on the plea that she needed counselling, the officer invited her to a five-star hotel on March 3, 2012, and then started visiting her house regularly. After several such ‘counseling sessions’, the police officer proposed marriage on March 4, 2014.
While she rejected the proposal, the SHO continued to persist, the plea alleged and said she finally succumbed to his pressure and married the cop on June 7, 2012 at a small function. The cop also adopted the woman’s son and recorded himself as the boy’s father at a school.
However, next month she accidentally found SMSes being exchanged between the cop and another woman and later got to know that he was already married and had two sons. The next year, the victim gave birth to a boy, following which the cop started staying away from home for longer periods, it claimed.
When confronted with his earlier marriage and sons, the cop abused her and warned her of physical harm. Last year, when she warned him that she would complain to higher police authorities, the cop “barged into my house, beat me up, warned that I and my children would be killed if I ever complained to his superiors, and began pressurising me for a one-time settlement,” the petition said.
As the threats and beatings continued, she mustered courage and filed a complaint with the Rajouri Garden police station last August and another with the Assistant Commissioner of Police (West District).
On September 9, 2014, she filed a complaint with the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Tis Hazari courts, which dismissed it in November. She filed a revision petition against this order which was also dismissed.
PTI
