{"id":120508,"date":"2020-08-02T19:24:40","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-global-press.pantheonsite.io\/?p=4918"},"modified":"2020-08-02T19:24:40","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","slug":"up-police-said-parents-they-cant-rescue-their-missing-daughter-due-to-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=120508","title":{"rendered":"UP Police said Parents, They can’t rescue their missing daughter due to lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“…….when the case came to the notice of the national child commission, the girl was rescued the same day \u2013 putting a huge question mark on the ways and intention of the police. The commission\u2019s chairman Priyank Kanoongo learnt about the case through a post by this correspondent on Twitter,” reported by facebook page Documenting Crimes Against Hindus.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Police in Uttar Pradesh\u2019s Bhadohi district, for nearly two months kept telling the parents of a missing minor girl that they know where she is but can\u2019t bring her back home because of Covid-19 lockdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, when the case came to the notice of the national child commission, the girl was rescued the same day \u2013 putting a huge question mark on the ways and intention of the police. The commission\u2019s chairman Priyank Kanoongo learnt about the case through a post by this correspondent on Twitter.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The girl was rescued from Gujarat\u2019s Surat city on the evening of 9 May. The girl had gone missing from her house in Bhadohi\u2019s Joginaka village on 14 March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An FIR was filed at Gopiganj Police Station the same day on the complaint of the girl\u2019s father Jitendra Kumar Singh. The FIR (number 0066\/2020) named \u2018Shahid alias Guddu\u2019 as accused; he was booked under IPC sections 363 (kidnapping) and 386 (extortion), and sections 7 and 8 of POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012) Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As per the complaint the girl stepped out of the house around 3 am on the intervening night of 13 and 14 March, to answer nature\u2019s call, but did not return, and that Shahid is the one who took her. For the next two months, the police repeatedly turned away the family whenever they went to the police station to inquire about their daughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEvery time, the police told us to wait until lockdown ends,\u201d the girl\u2019s father told this correspondent over the phone. All along, the Bhadohi police gave the same response from its official verified Twitter handle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The same day, the Bhadohi police tweeted a video statement, \u201cWe have traced the girl. The case is very sensitive. We explained to them that a lockdown is in place and the rescue would require the police to travel very far. The conditions are such that the police cannot go there. As soon as the lockdown ends, we will immediately bring the girl back…,\u201d the cop was seen saying.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On 10 May, when this correspondent talked to the girl\u2019s father, he said that he was happy to know his daughter is safe and has been rescued, but added that the police could have acted in time and rescued the girl even before the lockdown began (the nationwide lockdown was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 24 March).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe police wasted the first 10 days when there was no lockdown. All they would do was call the boy\u2019s [Shahid\u2019s] uncle and friends from the nearby villages to the police station, and let them off in four-five hours. This drama went on till the police started giving excuse of the lockdown,\u201d Singh said.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He named the police officer in question as inspector Krishna Nand Rai, who is in-charge of the Gopiganj thana. Singh said that the girl\u2019s maternal uncle is an armyman, and \u201ceven his visits to the police station led to nothing\u201d. \u201cThe cops would tell my brother-in-law that at least he should understand the pressures faced by men in uniform and not act as a patrakaar,\u201d Singh said. Singh says the police had traced the girl\u2019s location within the first week itself, but did not bother to act on the tip-off. \u201cThe police did not tell us anything. But they revealed the location to our pradhan. One day, I heard the pradhan talk to someone over the phone where he was saying that the police had traced the location,\u201d said Singh. \u201cHowever, the police never gave us clear information.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Singh drives an auto-rickshaw for a living, and has two daughters. The younger one is yet to turn four. He shared with this correspondent two letters that he sent to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in April. \u201cI wrote to him as advised by my samaj, but nothing came out of it.\u201d Singh says he has not talked to his elder daughter at all since she went missing. However, he received a call from Shahid on the evening of 9 May \u2014 the day of his arrest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAround 8 pm, I received a call from a police officer in Surat. He informed me that my daughter has been taken into custody and kept in a shelter home. A few minutes later, I received a call from Shahid,\u201d says Singh. \u201cShahid kept on repeating that he is not at fault at all. I was really angry and hurled abuses at him, and disconnected the call.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Singh says Shahid was a mere occasional visitor to his sister-in-law\u2019s house, which is located in the same street as his. He says Shahid is around \u201c22-23 years of age\u201d. \u201cAll I know about him is that he works at his uncle\u2019s shop where they sell egg. I did not know that he had eyes on my daughter,\u201d said Singh. The girl had appeared for two of six exams for her Class IX before she went missing, says Singh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the accused was from the other community, the case led to tension in the village, he says. \u201cOurs is an all-Thakur village. There is not even a single Muslim family. It\u2019s only in a market on the outskirts that one finds Muslims. The entire village is upset with me because of this case,\u201d says Singh. Singh says that the cops would often tell him that the matter is \u201csensitive\u201d and they need to tread carefully. \u201cThis is because the boy belongs to another religion,\u201d says Singh. Notably, the police officer seen in the video put out by Bhadohi police\u2019s Twitter handle too described the case as \u201cvery sensitive\u201d. When asked about the Bhadohi police\u2019s response to the case all along, chairman of child commission <\/a>Kanoongo told this correspondent that the existing child laws in the country must be implemented at all costs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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