The Madhya Pradesh government today told the high court that five policemen and a doctor were suspended and another medico was sacked in connection with events related to the October 31 Bhopal gangrape, asserting it has been very sensitive in dealing with the case.
Filing a status report, Advocate General Purshendra Kaurav informed a division bench comprising Chief Justice Hemant Gupta and Justice Vijay Kumar Shukla that three police inspectors and two sub-inspectors were immediately suspended.
Besides, Kaurav informed the court, which had taken note of media reports in the case, that a show cause notice has been slapped on an Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) for dilly-dallying in filing the complaint of the victim.
Over the goof-up in medical report of the victim, the Advocate General informed the court that one of the doctors was terminated and another one suspended over the "human errors".
Kaurav told the court that the government launched a slew of measures for women safety after the incident.
The high court adjourned the hearing and posted the matter for January 8.
On November 13, the high court had sought a status report in two weeks on the disciplinary proceedings initiated against the erring police officers who did not lodge the FIR and made the victim run from one police station to another.
On November 10, Chief Justice Gupta had taken suo motu cognisance of media reports on the gangrape and the medical report of the victim, which apparently had glaring errors.
He took up the matter treating the newspapers report as a PIL.
A 19-year-old UPSC aspirant was raped by four men when she was returning from her coaching class in Bhopal on October 31.
The girl had faced to a lot of hardships to get her complaint registered as the police stations feuded over their jurisdictions. The incident had triggered widespread public outrage.
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