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Cops suspended for refusal to register case

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The case relates to a missing housewife

LUCKNOW: Four policemen were suspended for alleged dereliction of duty in Sonebhadra district of Uttar Pradesh on Friday. The cops, posted at Pipri police station, have been punished for refusing to register a case after a 22-year-old housewife was reported missing by her parents. A highly decomposed body of the woman was exhumed from a staff quarter in Hindalco housing colony in Renukoot a couple of days ago, five months after she was reported missing at the Pipri police station.

State Special Secretary (Home) Madhukar Dwivedi told media persons that the woman, Kiran, was married to an employee of the Hindalco factory in May 2006. Four months after the marriage, she went missing in September.

On September 5, her parents submitted an application to the Station House Officer of the Pipri police station for registering an FIR, which was refused by the policemen, Mr. Dwivedi said. The parents were shooed away by the cops who told them to continue searching for their daughter.

Kiran's body was recovered from a quarter in the housing colony on Wednesday. The quarter had been allotted to another employee and it was the stench emanating from the locked premises that drew the attention of the allottee who informed the police. The body was dug out from a room in the house. The woman was killed by some unknown persons. An FIR against unknown persons has been lodged at the Pipri police station and the crime registered under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code.

Mr. Dwivedi said an inquiry conducted by the Sonebhadra SSP revealed negligence on the part of the policemen. The suspended policemen are the SHO of Pipri, Anwar Khan, former SHO Dharkeshwar Singh, Head Constable Gopal Singh and Constable Nand Lal Dwivedi.

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