The mother of the victim expressed concern over the safety of her daughter.
The mother of the Pipli rape victim, who is undergoing treatment under tight security at SCB Medical College Hospital at Cuttack, today expressed concern over the safety of her daughter and urged the National Commission for Women to save her.
"My daughter was raped and attempts were made to kill her as she became an witness to the rape of one of her friends in 2008," Kamala Behera told NCW member secretary Anita Agnihotri.
Agnihotri, who began probe into the alleged rape and attempt to murder of the 19 year-old Dalit girl yesterday, met Behera and other members of the family at Arjungada village today, official sources said.
The girl's mother also drew NCW's attention to the local police's refusal to accept the family's FIR after the incident and government hospital doctors allegedly avoiding to treat her.
The girl, she said, was first taken to government hospital at Pipli which referred her to Capital Hospital in Bhubaneswar. The Capital Hospital in turn sent her to SCB Medical College Hospital from where she was discharged before she was cured.
She is now at the ICU of SCB Medical College Hospital since January first week following a direction by Orissa High Court direction.
Agnihotri, accompanied by Puri SP Anup Kumar Sahu, visited the spot where the girl was found unconscious on November 28, 2011 after being allegedly raped, official sources said.
She interacted with local people and sought to know from Sahu and the Pipli police station in-charge why the FIR sought to be lodged by the girl's family was refused.
Though the incident took place on November 28, 2011, the police registered a case only on January 9, 2012 after being directed by State Human Rights Commission.
The local police informed Agnihotri that one section of police force have been deployed at the residence of the victim since January 9, the sources added.
At least two rallies were organised here during the day by Dalit communities demanding justice for the victim.
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