Rural cops’ letter to medical officer of Mayo hosp reeks of foul language

Nagpur: An official communication from Khapa police station of Nagpur rural to the medical officer of Mayo Hospital regarding a crime of unnatural sex in November last year is being circulated in some social networking groups as it has some objectionable words describing the incident. The letter was signed by an officer of Asst PI (API) rank.
This controversy has now raised question regarding the claim of ‘smart policing’ of Maharashtra.

In the letter, the API was mentioning about the incident where a 12-year-old boy who was savaged by 24-year-old Shareef Salim in November last year. He wanted the medical officer to conduct a confirmatory examination which is a procedure of the medico-legal case of sexual violence.

The officer, trying to quote the survivor’s complaint, had used foul words to describe how Salim had savaged the boy by forcing himself on him. The minor was working as a helper at the chicken shop of Salim who targeted the survivor after the working hours.

Though the intercourse was mentioned in rude and rough manner in the letter, the same was referred with a better expression later where the query was being made to confirm the sexual assault.

Superintendent of police, Nagpur rural, Rakesh Ola to whom TOI had sent the letter said that he would look into the matter.

Retired DGP of Maharashtra PKB Chakravorthy, after reading letter, said that words used were “unparliamentary”. “The seniors should call for explanation and take action accordingly. The writer concerned need not had desscribed the incident in such language,” he said.

According to a senior officer of the rural police, the letter was being condemned after it had surfaced for the first time. There was also an internal discussion to find means to express such queries in more respectable way rather than resorting to use foul words. “It was learnt that a head constable had written the matter of the letter which was signed by the officer without checking it’s contents,” he said.

Dr Ajay Keoliya, dean of Mayo hospital, said the letter’s content seemed to have included the expressions in verbatim as stated by the survivors before the police. “It can be assumed that the complaint of the survivor was reflected in the letter as it was in the FIR,” he said.