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'Sensitise juniors in sexual offence cases'

The DCP also directed cops to sensitise the officers to deal with cases of sexual assault with prudence: High Court

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A city court has asked senior Delhi Police officers to sensitise their junior officers on how to deal with sexual assault cases, and to stick to the High Court directives while dealing with such cases.

Metropolitan Magistrate Abhilash Malhotra passed the directive while slamming the police for not complying with its order to assess the threat perception and provide security to an alleged rape victim, who is now missing.

"It is very strange that in a case where the court has ordered to assess threat perception and provide security to the complainant or rape victim, she is now missing," the court stated, adding that the officials had given a "deaf ear" to its order. It also asked the Delhi Commissioner of Police to look into the matter and submit a report in this regard by July 31.

"The DCP also directed cops to sensitise the officers to deal with cases of sexual assault with prudence," it said.

This happened during a hearing of a complaint filed by a rape victim who tried to withdraw her complaint after the first hearing, without giving any reasons. The episode prompted the court to direct the police to assess the threat perception and provide necessary security to her. After the first hearing, she had moved an application to stop legal proceedings. On March 23, the additional DCP of north district filed a report stating that the woman could not be contacted and her mobile phone was also switched off.

The court, however, noted that on the same day, another sub-inspector filed a separate report stating that the woman gave a written statement to him claiming she had given the complaint under pressure and her signatures were taken on a blank paper to falsely implicate the accused. Hence the conduct on the part of the two officials was "negligent".

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