Students of Saint Joseph Degree college participate in an anti-rape protest in Hyderabad. File photo: AFPBhopal: The Madhya Pradesh government on Sunday transferred two more senior police officials following an outrage over the alleged apathy on part of the police in registering a case in connection with the gang rape of a 19-year-old college student in the city last week.
The victim, meanwhile, demanded that the culprits be hanged in public.
The home department ordered the transfer of inspector general (Bhopal range) Yogesh Choudhary and Government Railway Police (GRP) superintendent, Bhopal Railway division, Anita Malviya.
Choudhary, who has been shifted to the state police headquarters as IG (law & order and security), is replaced by Jaideep Prasad. Malviya has been shifted to the police headquarters as assistant inspector general (AIG), the home department order said.
According to reports, Malviya faced the action for not acting sensitively in the matter.
Two days back, city superintendent of police, MP Nagar Zone, Kulvant Singh, was transferred to the police headquarters over alleged delay in registering the case.
The government already suspended three inspectors and two sub-inspectors for their alleged negligence, which delayed the registration of the case.
The suspended officers are: Habibganj GRP station in-charge Mohit Saxena, MP Nagar station in-charge Sanjay Singh Bais and Habibganj (city) police station in-charge Ravindra Yadav, and sub-inspectors R. N. Tekam (MP Nagar) and Bhawani Prasad Uikey (GRP Habibganj).
The 19-year-old woman, whose parents are police personnel themselves and posted in another city, was allegedly abducted and raped by four men near railway tracks in the vicinity of the Habibganj railway station here on the night of October 31 when she was returning home after attending a coaching class.
The GRP had arrested three men while another accused is on the run.
The woman reportedly made several rounds of various police stations to lodge the FIR but was allegedly turned away over 'jurisdiction' of the crime.
A special investigation team (SIT) of the MP Police is investigating the case and the alleged apathy by the police.
Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is reportedly upset over the incident and had pulled up senior officers.
The incident had triggered protests in the city.
'Cops were unhelpful'
Meanwhile, the woman on Sunday demanded that the culprits should be hanged in public for their crime and flayed the police for its "unhelpful" attitude in the whole affair.
"The culprits should be handed out the severest of punishments so that no one else dare commit such a crime. They should be given death, hanged to death on the streets so that there is no repeat of the crime," the woman told the media. This is the first time she met the press after the crime was committed.
"The attitude of the police officials was the worst in the case. They forced us to run from one police station to another. When we had to go through the ordeal, despite the fact that both my parents are in police, imagine the plight of other common people in similar situation," the young woman said.
"It is really regrettable that though police caught hold of the accused, they did not register my complaint. A Sub-Inspector from the MP Nagar police station inspected the crime scene after we went to police at 8 am on Wednesday, a day after the crime, but he raised jurisdiction issues," she said.
It was the family which caught hold of one accused who was found playing cards near the crime scene. He was later handed over to police.
The woman said police personnel at the Habibganj police station were cooperative, while those at the GRP police station and MP Nagar police station were not.
(With inputs from PTI & IANS)
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