4-yr-old raped: ‘Cautious’ cops take 5 hrs to file FIR

Nagpur: In an effort to register a flawless First Information Report (FIR) in the alleged rape of a four-year-old survivor, overcautious Wadi police kept the survivor and her mother waiting at the police station for over five hours on Monday.
The medical examination after the FIR took another three hours, raising a question about the focus on formalities rather than prompt action to comfort the survivor. The 4-year-old survivor, who arrived at the police station at about 1pm, was caught up in the process for around 8-10 hours.
A group of residents of Kachimet locality had approached Wadi police station with a woman, who works as a domestic help. They wanted to file a complaint against a man, Roshan Dahat, for sexually abusing her daughter in a school on Sunday.
The residents sat with the woman through five hours as cops compiled the FIR, from 1pm to 6pm, and then accompanied the survivor to Mayo Hospital at 7.30pm, and stayed till the process ended at around 10pm. “A constable took painstaking time to type the FIR and then started correcting it, repeatedly taking suggestions from the senior PI. The survivor of such tender age was completely exhausted by the time the process ended late in the evening,” said one of the residents.
Senior PI Rajendra Pathak of Wadi police station said as it was a sensitive case they wanted high level of accuracy in the FIR. “Any mistake would affect the case, and so we were cautious and patient,” he said. “The incident had taken place 24 hours ago, and so there was no rush for medical examination too,” he said.
The survivor was playing in a school garden, along with other children, at around 3pm on Sunday. Dahat, who is a relative of the school caretaker, lured her into a room. The room has been allotted to the caretaker and her family by the school authorities. Dahat is learnt to have started abusing the survivor after showing her some obscene clips on his cell phone.
The survivor’s mother was stunned to see her underwear drenched in blood when she returned home. The survivor narrated her plight to her mother, who relayed it to some local residents and sought help.
The mother was unsure about approaching police, due to pressure by some influential persons, but her neighbours convinced her to file a complaint for social good, and the man does not repeat such an act again.