Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Aug 6: A police officer and a constable were arrested by police in two separate molestation cases in South Kashmir district of Anantnag and in Srinagar today.
Reports said that a police officer, Ejaz Ahmad Shah molested a 13-year old girl in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district yesterday.
The father of the girl said that Inspector Shah came to his house along with several guests yesterday and told him to prepare tea. “I asked my daughters and wife to prepare tea and bread and I left home for some work,” he said.
“The officer took advantage of my absence and molested my daughter in one of the rooms of my house. Her clothes were torn off by the officer. My daughter raised an alarm, the other people rushed to the spot but the officer managed to escape”, said girl’s father.
A police spokesman said that Kokernag Police arrested today one Ejaz Ahmad Shah resident of Kulgam and registered a case (FIR no. 93/2014 under Section 343, 354,323/RPC) after some locals alleged him of attempting to molest a girl at Dessu, Kokernag. The sections pertain to wrongful confinement, outrage modesty of woman and injury. The offense is non-bailable.
Police said the arrested person is working in police department and was on a personal visit to the place. Kokernag police has started the investigation in this regard.
In the meantime, a policeman was thrashed and stripped by people in old city area after he allegedly tried to molest a girl in a passenger bus.
The policeman identified as Nirmal Kumar of 12 Battalion of Armed Police was beaten up by people at Gojwara in old city. The policeman molested a girl in the bus that he had boarded from Lal Chowk. The girl raised an alarm. The commuters beat him up, removed his clothes and tied him to an electric pole.
Police reached the spot and arrested the cop. “A case under FIR number 80/2014 under Sections 294, 341, 323 at Nowhatta Police Station.
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