Woman alleges police inaction in dowry case

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, August 7

A woman alleging police inaction in a dowry harassment case has tweeted to Chief Minister (CM) Capt Amarinder Singh, Director General of Police (DGP) Dinkar Gupta, newly appointed president of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee Navjot Singh Sidhu and the adviser to CM Raveen Thukral.

The woman, Ria Nanda, tweeted: “Please refer to my complaint number UID 1783316 dated May 16, 2020. I had been mentally, emotionally and physically harassed by my in-laws’ family. My in-laws are having political links with the ruling party so no action has been initiated by the Ludhiana police so far. Please help.”

Ria alleged she had been taking rounds of offices of senior police officials and the women police station but no official was dared to register an FIR against her husband and in-laws who had been torturing her for dowry after marriage.

“I have visited the women police station several times and every time police officials used to make hollow promises and assured registration of an FIR but nothing happened even after one year. The police talk about justice for women and are establishing help desks at police stations but the ground reality is something different. To get a case registered against accused, one should have political links,” alleged the victim.

The woman alleged that she had also sent messages to the Police Commissioner, Ludhiana, about the delay in the registration of an FIR but to no avail. The in-laws of the woman had already told the police that fake allegations were being levelled against them by the woman.

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