Chhatarpur: A woman in Chhatarpur district of Madhya Pradesh has accused the police of erroneously naming her as the victim of molestation case instead of the her daughter, the real victim in the case. The woman had lodged a complaint with the Superintendent of Police Chhatarpur even as police have launched an investigation into the case.
A strange case of police has come to light in the district. As per the woman hailing from a village in the Ishanagar police station area, she approached the concerned police station on May 17. At the police station, the woman said she lodged a complaint about an alleged molestation of her 7-year-old daughter by a person at a wedding function recently.
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In her complaint, the woman said that the accused molested her minor daughter at the wedding ceremony at her next door neighbour and demanded action against the accused. However, instead of registering an FIR in the name of the girl, the police wrote an FIR in the name of her mother naming her as the victim, the woman said.
Agitated with the gaffe by the police, the woman along with her husband and daughter reached the SP office on Tuesday where she narrated her ordeal to the Chhatarpur ASP. Looking at the seriousness of the matter, ASP Vikram Singh talked to the Ishanagar police station and asked them to fix the matter. ASP Vikram Singh said that following the woman's complaint, the matter is being looked into.
A fair investigation will be conducted in the matter and accused will be brought to book, he said.
