BENGALURU: The high court has ordered notice to the government in a petition filed by a woman seeking action against her husband — a sub-inspector with Bengaluru district police and posted in the city — for allegedly sexually harassing and ill-treating her and her minor daughter.
The petitioner-woman also accused her husband of implicating her, her sister and brother in a false case after she filed a complaint against him. Challenging the said FIR registered in JC Nagar police station on June 5, 2022 against her and her family members, the petitioner has termed it a counter-complaint intended to threaten her.
She has sought a direction to the DGP to set up a special task force to investigate the complaint she filed with JC Nagar police against her husband on June 5, 2022 for offences punishable under sections 312, 354 A, 376 B, 376(2) (F) and Pocso Act, 2012. The petitioner also sought a direction to the CBI to take over the investigation into her complaint.
The petitioner, who is a Muslim, had married the sub-inspector after separating from her first husband. They got acquainted when proceedings were under way in the case she had filed under the domestic violence Act against her first husband. They got married in 2012.
The petitioner claimed that she suffered physically, sexually and emotionally at the hands of her PSI-husband. According to her, she was treated like an animal and subjected to all forms of torture, including unnatural acts.
She stated that her PSI- husband even developed a relationship with her sister, who was having marital problems, and sexually abused her as well. “For the sake of my children (two daughters), I suffered every pain for the past eight years. But my husband did not stop and started sexually abusing the minor child who was then only 9 years of age. Unable to tolerate the injustice, I filed a complaint in 2016 with JC Nagar police but senior officers interfered and closed the case secretly in gross violation of section 21 of the Pocso Act,” the petitioner alleged.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme court directives on cases related to sexual assault)
