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The Supreme Court connected Wednesday (March 25, 2026) reprimanded the Haryana Police and its kid payment committee for their insensitive handling of a four-year-old’s rape case.
The Court was proceeding the parents’ petition, successful which they alleged inaction by the Gurugram police. The Court, connected March 23, 2026, issued notices to the Haryana Government, its DGP and others connected a plea seeking a CBI oregon SIT probe into the rape of a four-year-old miss successful Gurugram.
“It is shameful that the Haryana Police summoned a three-year-old rape subsister to the presumption alternatively of visiting her,” the Supreme Court observed connected Wednesday (March 25), and constituted a three-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) comprising women IPS officers from the Haryana cadre to probe the rape case.
The Court besides directed the Haryana authorities to expeditiously notify the SIT. It besides instructed the Gurugram Police to manus implicit the lawsuit records by March 26, 2026.
The Supreme Court issued show-cause notices to Gurugram Police officials for their shoddy probe into the case, asking wherefore enactment should not beryllium taken against them.
The Court besides issued amusement origin notices to the members of the Gurugram Child Welfare Committee, asking wherefore they should not beryllium removed.
It besides directed the Gurugram District Judge to delegate the rape lawsuit to a elder pistillate judicial serviceman presiding implicit the POCSO court.
After noting the glaring insensitivity, sheer recklessness and irresponsible behaviour of the aforesaid authorities, the Court ordered that each officers of the Gurugram police, including the Police Commissioner, beryllium disassociated with the probe and ordered the constitution of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) with 3 senior-IPS rank-women officers to instrumentality implicit the probe.
“If the State has immoderate respect for the law, the constabulary officers indispensable beryllium transferred immediately. The infinitesimal we instrumentality cognisance, you commencement arresting people. Have they adjacent work immoderate bare act? This is the tallness of insensitivity this lawsuit has shown. The incidental took spot connected 2 Feb, and connected Feb 5, CWC had a telephone speech with the genitor of the victim. If they had immoderate respect for the victim, they should’ve gone to the location of the victim, not called them to the office. The 1 who went to the child’s location is booked connected corruption charges now. This is the prime of officers they are posting. Complete recklessness,” the Court observed during the hearing.
On March 20, the Court had agreed to perceive a plea seeking a CBI oregon SIT probe into the rape of the 3-year-old miss successful Gurugram. The Court had taken enactment of an urgent notation by elder advocator Mukul Rohatgi and posted the substance for proceeding connected March 23, 2026.
The elder advocator told the tribunal that constabulary person done thing contempt the miss giving a connection to the magistrate detailing the horrific incident.
“There is nary apprehension made. The tract has not been secured. No CCTV [footage] taken. Household maids are involved,” Mr. Rohatgi had submitted.
The CJI initially asked the petitioners to determination the High Court. However, the elder lawyer said the High Court acrophobic volition beryllium successful Chandigarh, portion the victim’s begetter is employed successful Gurugram, arguing that a “message should spell from the highest tribunal of the country” successful this “horrific case”.
