A 26-year-old woman sustained severe burns as she immolated herself on the premises of a police station after the police allegedly failed to register a case on her complaint of rape in Madhya Pradesh's Shahdol, an official said on Sunday.
While the woman is undergoing treatment at a hospital in Jabalpur, two policemen have been line-attached (removed from the field duties) for dereliction of duty for the incident that took place in the Amlai police station on Friday, the official said.
Amlai police station in-charge Mohammed Sameer and sub-inspector Savitri Singh have been line-attached for dereliction of duty, Superintendent of Police Kumar Pratik said.
Official arrested
Following the incident, a rape case had been registered against revenue official Brij Bahadur based on the woman's complaint and he was arrested, the SP said.
According to the police, the woman had lodged a complaint on August 12 alleging that the accused had been in a relationship on the promise of marriage, but later refused to tie the knot. However, the FIR was not lodged on her complaint, they said.
The woman later had also complained on the CM Helpline, following which the police had called her and the accused to the police station on September 2 and she immolated herself on the premises the same day, they said.
