GURUGRAM: A
woman constable deployed in a
Durga Shakti squad allegedly
slapped a woman for jumping a traffic signal near Sector 14 on Thursday.
She alleged that the woman cop later got cold feet and tried to flee in a police car, which then rammed into a bus.
In her complaint, Seema Agarwal, a resident of Sadar Bazar, claimed that she was heading to Salwan Public School, Sector 15, on her scooty to pick her son up from school on Thursday when police harassed her. In a hurry, she jumped the traffic signal at Agarwal Chowk near Sector 14, and soon cops stopped her.
“When I jumped the signal, the woman constable from a Durga Shakti squad stopped me. She started abusing me and said my
husband and I should die in an accident. She was not even on traffic police duty, but she intervened in the matter and abused me. She also slapped me and misbehaved with me. Cops are there to help people, not to harass them,” Agarwal said in her complaint to the station house officer of Civil Lines police station.
Agarwal alleged that an ASI and other cops present at the spot turned a deaf ear to her appeals for help and called her a liar instead. Later, the woman constable seemed to realise that she had gone too far and tried to leave the spot on the Maruti Ertiga allotted to the squad, but rammed into a bus instead, she alleged. It is not clear who was driving the car. Nobody was injured.
Sources said the woman constable has been recruited into the police force. She is posted with the Old Gurgaon Durga Shakti squad.
Haryana Police launched the Durga Shakti project last year to check harassment and other women-related crimes in the state. Chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar launched a Durga Shakti app and 50 vehicles for the ‘Durga Shakti Rapid Action Force’ on July 12. Gurgaon police has four Durga Shakti vehicles at present.
These vehicles, along with teams of four women cops each, are supposed to be on patrol duty. The cops are deputed in three shifts, and anytime someone calls on 100 or the women helpline, the squad will rush to help the person in need.
TOI made repeated attempts to contact ACP Usha Kundu and ACP Pankhuri Yadav, but phone calls didn’t elicit responses from them.
