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The State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has ordered the Tamil Nadu Government to springiness a compensation of ₹9 lakh to a POCSO survivor, who was sexually assaulted by her neighbour and the neighbour’s friends successful 2022.
In the order, Justice S. Manikumar, Chairperson, SHRC, directed the State authorities to cod the compensation from the past 3 inspectors and 1 sub-inspector of the All-Women Police Station (AWPS) of Vellore constabulary for not investigating the lawsuit arsenic per rules. Each of them has to wage a sum of ₹2 lakh arsenic compensation and the remaining magnitude volition beryllium collected from 2 constables, who were portion of the probe squad of the case.
The SHRC Chairperson besides ordered that the compensation should beryllium deposited successful the survivor’s slope relationship wrong a month. The State authorities should besides instrumentality indispensable disciplinary enactment against constabulary unit progressive successful the probe of the case.
The Commission besides recommended re-investigation of the lawsuit by an serviceman not beneath the fertile of Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) and record a last study earlier it wrong 3 months.
The order, a transcript of which is disposable with The Hindu, stated that the complainant, a 15-year-old survivor, said that she was asked by her neighbour and accused Mohanapriya to travel to her location wherever she was sexually assaulted by her person Santhoshkumar. The subsister was threatened by Mohanapriya and her different person Meganathan.
The subsister managed to flight and lodged a ailment with Vellore AWPS connected June 23, 2022. A lawsuit was registered nether conception 17 of POCSO Act. The lawsuit was investigated by a squad comprising Inspector P. Shyamala, Sub-Inspector S. Sathiyavani, and writer D. Dhamayanthi. The aesculapian introspection was conducted astatine Government Medical College Hospital successful Vellore connected June 26 and again connected July 9 erstwhile the unfortunate unsocial was brought by police.
The Commission recovered that adjacent aft a tip-off that the subsister was sexually abused, the constabulary had not informed the Child Welfare Officer arsenic per norms. The constabulary besides violated rules that said household members oregon a Child Welfare Officer should travel the unfortunate for aesculapian examination.
The Commission besides recovered lapses successful the constabulary probe arsenic it took astir 9 months by the investigating squad to grounds statements of the subsister successful March 2023 contempt the lawsuit being registered successful June 2022. “Even aft specified a confession connection by the subsister to the court, the constabulary did not instrumentality immoderate steps to implicate fishy Meganathan successful the transgression lawsuit and they supported the other party,” the bid said.
