NEW DELHI: A 15-year-old girl who had been abducted from Badarpur in South Delhi by two of her tenants, illegally confined for 10 months and repeatedly raped during the period, alleged on Friday that the Delhi police, instead of taking action against the accused, had been harassing her and her family. During her period of confinement the victim had also got pregnant and delivered a baby.

At a press conference on Friday, the victim said she had been abducted by Rajkumar and his friend Veeru on July 26 last year. The police registered a case under Section 363 (punishing for kidnapping) of the Indian Penal Code but allegedly did not make any sincere attempt to trace her.

The victim, who was accompanied by her father and mother at the press conference, said the accused took her to Punjab where they kept her in confinement in a jungle area. They assaulted her and also forced her into prostitution. About three months ago, she gave birth to a baby. On May 1, she somehow escaped from there and reached her Badarpur residence.

However, on May 14, Rajkumar along with his five accomplices reached her house and tried to forcibly take her away, claiming she was his wife. At this, her father had called up the Police Control Room.

Giving an account of how insensitive the police personnel were, the victim's mother said, "Surprisingly, the police asked Rajkumar to bring my daughter to the police station". It was then, she said, that the family contacted Delhi Pradesh National Panthers Party secretary D.N. Srivastava who advised them to contact the Prayas women's helpline, which immediately sent a representative.

On what happened thereafter, Mr Srivastava said: "After the girl and her parents went to the police station, the local police threatened them with dire consequences asking why they called up the women's helpline. They even forced the victim to sign on a blank paper." However, on the intervention of the women's helpline, the police picked up six people but arrested only Rajkumar in the abduction case. All the others were let off.

Later, the victim was taken to a court and her statement was registered under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code. "The woman investigating officer, an Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI), made false submission before the court by hiding the fact that the victim's parents lived in Delhi and that she had a child, due to which the court sent the girl to a shelter home. Her parents kept waiting for her outside the court as they had been threatened not to enter the premises," Mr. Srivastava said, alleging that the ASI dumped the baby in the court lawn and took away the victim. "She beat up the victim on the way. You can still see injury marks on her face," he said.

After the issue was brought to the notice of area Deputy Commissioner of Police Anil Shukla, the investigating officer was sent to the police lines. "Our demand is that the Badarpur Station House Officer should be terminated from service for gross negligence in the case," said Panthers Party president Sanjoy Sachdev. The victim was released from the shelter home this past Wednesday.

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