VIJAYAWADA: Setting a new record, Krishna district police prepared a chargesheet within 24 hours of receiving a dowry harassment complaint on Friday.
According to police sources, they received a complaint from one Chebrole Sirisha, a resident of Machilipatnam town, alleging her husband was harassing her for additional dowry and questioning her fidelity.
Sirisha married Prabhakar in 2011 after he divorced his first wife. The woman first tried to lodge a complaint with the local police station, but after receiving a lacklustre response, Sirisha decided to approach Krishna district SP Siddharth Kaushal via the Spandana grievance redressal programme.
The SP immediately forwarded her plaint to deputy superintendent of police of Disha police station Rajiv Kumar, who inquired into the matter, registered an FIR and filed the final chargesheet in 24 hours, setting a record in the state.
Since the advent of the Disha Act, cops have been focusing on responding quickly towards crimes against women and the time taken for filing the chargesheet in several such cases has seen a drastic drop from 200-odd days to seven days.
