NEW DELHI: The parents of a dead minor girl have moved Delhi High Court alleging that she was raped in Delhi Cantt and has sought a judicial inquiry along with setting up an SIT probe.
In their plea, which will be heard by Justice Yogesh Khanna on Tuesday, the parents stated that they had “no faith in the present investigation,” which has now been transferred to the Crime Branch of Delhi Police.
A prayer was also made to provide adequate safety and security for them and the other witnesses in the case. The plea further sought judicial inquiry into the lapses on the administrative front in the case to reveal the reason behind the delay in police response and “why no vital evidence was preserved.”
The parents alleged that the “total focus of police was to hush up/sabotage the case” and that they were “tortured and pressured by police and its agent to compromise the case.”
“The delay in registration of an FIR, that too under diluted offences, itself indicates police did not want to give justice,” said the petition. The parents submitted that they belong to the poorest section of the society, were illiterate and “under the force and influence of various groups with vested interest.” The minor Dalit girl died under suspicious circumstances on August 1 even as her parents alleged that she was raped, murdered and cremated by a crematorium’s priest in southwest Delhi’s Old Nangal village.
The plea has also alleged that Delhi Police tortured the victim’s parents and forced them to initially reach a compromise and argued that only a judicial probe into the matter could reveal why there was delay in registration of an FIR and why police allegedly tortured and threatened the family at the police station to compromise the matter.
