Chennai: A 22-year-old girl, the daughter of a daily wage labourer, was allegedly brutally gangraped for eight days before she died on December 4 in the city. Accusing the police of shielding her attackers, her mother has now approached the Madras high court pleading for the case to be transferred to the CB-CID.
V. Shantha, a daily wage labourer, told the court that her daughter , who was working in a shop in the city , went missing on November 24, and on December 2 was rescued by the police and her son from Kallkurichi , Villupuram district. Although the girl told her she was brutally gangraped for eight days , the police warned her against admitting her to a government hospital.
She finally took her to the Stanley hospital, where she died. But even then the SI of the Elephant Gate police station refused to act and registered a case under section 306 of IPC (abetment to suicide) only after she turned to a women’s organisation for help, she said.
Police accused of shielding rapists
The inspector and SI attached to the Elephant Gate police station have been accused of shielding those involved in the rape of a 22- year- old girl, who died of her injuries in a city hospital on December 4.While the police arrested one of the accused, Francis, they did not oppose his bail plea before a sessions court, and it was only at her intervention that his bail petition was dismissed, the girl’s mother, V. Shantha, told the Madras high court, urging it transfer of the case to the CB-CID.
Besides Francis, the girl identified her other attackers as Murali, Sankar, and Annamalai. There were a few others she could not name, according to her mother.A daily wage labourer, Shanta, told the court that her daughter , who was working in a shop owned by one Murali, went missing on November 24, and on December 2 was rescued by the police and her son from Kallkurichi, Villupuram district.
She claimed the police warned her against admitting her to a government hospital, but she finally she took her daughter to the Stanley hospital, where she died. But even then the SI did not take any action and registered a case under section 306 of IPC (abetment to suicide) against the accused only after she turned to the women’s organisation, Pengal Viduthalai Munnani, for help, she said.
Justice V. Ramasubramanian posted the case to after the Christmas vacation for hearing.
