HC probes judge over ‘child sex assault’; mom of kid writes to PM

ALWAR/JAIPUR: The Rajasthan HC on Monday deputed a vigilance team to probe a mother’s allegation against a special judge of the Bharatpur district court that he drugged and sodomised her son (14) for a month after befriending him at a tennis club. The judge has been suspended for now.
The vigilance team arrived in Bharatpur a day after the boy’s mother lodged a complaint naming special judge Jitendra Singh as one among three people who allegedly sexually assaulted her son. She also wrote to PM Narendra Modi, CM Ashok Gehlot and the state DGP, alleging that her family was being threatened and pressured to withdraw the case. Police have yet to record the boy’s statement. The police technically can’t interrogate the special judge either without the high court ’s permission, SP Devendra Bishnoi said.
The child underwent a medical examination on Sunday, but officials refused to divulge the findings.
In her letter to PM, the boy’s mother said Mathura Gate police station initially refused to register her complaint against special judge Singh and co-accused Anshul Soni and Rahul Katara.