Even after five days since the father went to the police office to report the rape of his 14-year-old daughter, the police have not registered a complaint and initiated an investigation.
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The police have been reluctant to register a rape case against a 14-year-old girl. A father from Saptari is rushing to the police office to seek justice for the rape of his 14-year-old daughter, as the 16-day campaign against gender-based violence is underway across the country.
The father had reached the District Police Office last Wednesday after his daughter told him that a 21-year-old man who was working as a laborer in Birtamod had raped her by luring her to marry him. The police have not registered a complaint in the incident even after five days since the victim's father went to the police office. The father, who is illiterate and does simple agricultural work, had initially reached the police's Women, Children and Senior Citizen Service Center. There, the police had sent a slip with registration number 423 and a letter to the Rampura Malhaniya police station to file a direct complaint regarding the assault and sent it to the police station to bring the accused.
The father, who reached the village with the letter given by the police, reached the Rampura Malhaniya police station on Saturday. The police there told him to go to the District Police Office. Only then did he realize that a different complaint had been registered. On Sunday, he had reached the District Police Office with his daughter to lodge a complaint. But the police did not register his complaint. The police asked him to come the next day with his daughter's birth certificate and he said that no complaint had been registered even after he went again on Monday.
‘The villagers are pressuring the Panchayat to settle the incident,’ said the girl’s father, ‘The police always say to come tomorrow. What should I do now? Even the 2500 rupees I paid to file the complaint has become a debt. I don’t have enough money to travel.’
DSP Dambar Bahadur Puri, spokesperson for the District Police Office, said that the complaint regarding rape had been received by him on Monday. ‘Initially, he had filed a different complaint. Only today, the complaint regarding rape has been received,’ he said, ‘Action will be taken as per the law.’
