Khairlanji Massacre

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Not related to Khairlanji but this crime and lack of police action.

<b>Magistrate on the run after ‘raping’ daughter</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><i>A subdivisional magistrate in UP has been suspended for raping his 25-year-old daughter several times since 2001</i>
IANS
Lucknow: Justice is finally catching up with a judicial official, who is on the run after he is alleged to have repeatedly raped his daughter.

<b>Virendra Kumar Dohre, subdivisional magistrate of Mahoba, about 300 km from here, has been suspended and cannot be traced. The dalit official allegedly raped his daughter Pratima Singh, 25, in the presence of her mother, for the first time in 2001.</b>

The Uttar Pradesh government has deputed two senior officers of the rank of deputy inspector general of police to arrest Dohre. “We have not been able to arrest him so far,” Uttar Pradesh DGP Bua Singh said.

<b>Action against Dohre followed after his daughter met state Principal Home Secretary Satish Kumar Agarwal about 10 days ago along with Madhu Kishwar, a Delhi-based woman rights activist, who took up the case. </b>

“Dohre has committed the most heinous crime. The government ordered his suspension on Friday,” the DGP said.

According to the complaint by Pratima, she was raped first in 2001 when her father was posted in Kanpur. She tried reporting the matter to the police but the local police station refused to entertain her complaint. After this, her father repeated the act several times, she alleged. He threatened her with dire consequences if she dared to complain, she said.

“Having already been a victim of his continued oppression and physical torture, my mother could not dare to take up cudgels against my father. She even dissuaded me from doing so,” Pratima said in her complaint.

Pratima, however, did not give up. In January 2002, she managed to get her complaint reach the state DGP. But the investigation landed in the hands of her father himself.

Kishwar said: “When he came know about the complaint against himself, he thrashed Pratima with a steel rod and put a gun to her chest, and told her: ‘You think a DGP can protect you against me? I hold many DGPs in my fist and can make them do my bidding.’.”

Kishwar said: “Thereafter, he forced her to write a statement in a slightly changed handwriting, saying that she had never made any complaint against her father, who never maltreated her.”

Eventually, a friend came to her rescue and took her out of the mess. A few months later she eloped and got married to a Satya Prakash in Varanasi, where the latter was studying for his medical degree. She chose Satya Prakash as her saviour because his father had helped her mother and expressed sympathy for her plight.

What followed was a harrowing experience not only for Pratima, but also for Satya Prakash’s entire family. They were harassed and hounded by Dohre and his hired goons, Kishwar charged.

It was in September this year, Pratima got through to at television channel in which she came out in the open against her father. 

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