Migrant takes nine-year-old daughter’s body to DC’s office

A man reached the Deputy Commissioner’s office here with the body of his nine-year-old daughter, kept on an e-rickshaw. He alleged that the police picked him up from his house without any reason and kept him at the Jagatpuri police post for three days illegally and did not allow him to attend his ailing daughter, which led to her death for want of medical treatment. The migrant even levelled allegation against a private person, saying he assaulted him inside the police post.

The deceased has been identified as Ananya. She was a student of Class III. When information about the family keeping the body outside the Deputy Commissioner’s office was received, officials of the police station concerned reached the spot.

The girl’s father, Vaidyanath, alleged that he knows Sunny, a youth from his village in Uttar Pradesh, who had kidnapped a minor girl from the city on the pretext of marriage. Following this, suspecting his role in assisting the youth, the police detained him in front of his daughter due to which she got scared. He could not get his daughter treated on time as he was locked up in the police station for three days. The police released him on Tuesday evening but by then his daughter had died. On Wednesday, he reached the Deputy Commissioner’s office with his daughter’s body to express his anger against the police personnel.

ADCP-3 Kanwalpreet Singh said a case of kidnapping and rape of a minor girl was recently registered against a youth. The police arrested a person in the case and recovered the girl. Vaidyanath was also booked in the case for helping the youth in abducting the girl and he was called to the Jagatpuri police post for investigation on July 29. But after knowing about his ailing daughter, who was suffering from cancer, as claimed by him, he was allowed to go home after some time.

“The mother of the kidnapping victim works at the house of a person against whom Vaidyanath had levelled allegation of beating him inside the police post but the person had come to the police post in support of the girl’s mother and he had not beaten up Vaidyanath inside the post. The police will investigate his allegation and action will be taken on merit,” the ADCP said.

Jain marks investigation

to SDM (West)

Meanwhile, DC Himanshu Jain marked an inquiry into the allegation levelled by Vaidyanath to the SDM (West). “The SDM will probe the matter and submit a report and further action would be taken accordingly,” he said.