SC calls Haryana police's approach to 3-yr-old's rape 'shameful', sets up SIT of woman IPS officers

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New Delhi, Castigating the Haryana Police for its “shameful” and “insensitive” strategy within the rape case of a three-year-old, the Supreme Courtroom on Wednesday constituted a Particular Investigation Staff of ladies IPS officers to conduct a good investigation into the crime that befell in Gurugram.

SC calls Haryana police’s strategy to 3-yr-old’s rape ‘shameful’, units up SIT of girl IPS officers

A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi requested the Haryana authorities to right away notify the SIT and directed the Gurugram Police at hand over the case data to the probe panel.

The bench rapped the Haryana Police for downgrading the offence from a harsher provision to a milder one in its FIR filed below the POCSO Act.

It additionally pulled up a health care provider at a personal hospital for fully altering her model on the kid’s assertion and stated, “It was shameful for a health care provider to take action”.

The highest courtroom issued present trigger notices to officers of Gurugram Police and requested them why motion shouldn’t be taken in opposition to them for shoddy investigation within the case.

“Why can not the police go to the sufferer’s home? Are they kings? The one who went was arrested on corruption costs,” the highest courtroom stated, calling the strategy “shameful” and “insensitive”.

The bench additionally issued a present trigger discover to Gurugram Youngster Welfare Committee as to why they shouldn’t be eliminated.

“The conduct of CWC members, as seen from the February 5 report, compounded the victimisation. All the police pressure from commissioner to the sub-inspector made all makes an attempt to show that the kid had no proof and the mother and father didn’t make any case. There isn’t any room for doubt that an offence on Part 6 below POCSO was apparently dedicated,” the bench noticed.

The highest courtroom then directed the Gurugram district decide to entrust the case to a senior girl judicial officer presiding over a POCSO courtroom within the metropolis.

The three-year-old lady was allegedly sexually assaulted by two feminine home helps and their male confederate for about two months at a society in Sector 54, police had stated.

Following allegations made by the kid’s mother and father, an FIR was registered on February 4 below related sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the POCSO Act on the Sector 53 police station, they added.

In keeping with the police, though the incident occurred between December 2025 and January 2026, the mother and father reported the matter to the police after the lady disclosed her ordeal to her mom.

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