Rajasthan Police have denied allegations made by a woman that her pregnant daughter-in-law lost her child due to assault during a raid at her house. The woman’s son, Srikant Pandit, is an accused in the abduction and murder case of two men by cow vigilantes. Pandit is a member of the cow protection group led by local Bajrang Dal leader Monu Manesar.
The incident occurred when a team of Rajasthan and Haryana police went to Pandit’s home. However, Bharatpur SP Shyam Singh claimed that the police never entered the house as the accused was not present. He added that Pandit’s two brothers had come out of the home and were freed after questioning.
The police have booked five men for allegedly abducting and killing two men whose charred bodies were found in Haryana’s Bhiwani. The two victims, Junaid and Nasir, were alleged to have been abducted from Rajasthan’s Bharatpur. Monu and Pandit are among the four evading arrests.
Dulari Devi, Pandit’s mother, alleged that a team of Rajasthan Police assaulted her family members, and kicked her pregnant daughter-in-law in the stomach which caused her to deliver a stillborn baby. She claimed that more than 40 personnel of the Rajasthan Police forcibly entered her house and asked about the whereabouts of Srikant. When she told them that her son was not at home, they allegedly thrashed her and her son’s pregnant wife Kamlesh.
“The cops also kicked the pregnant wife of Shri Kant in her stomach, and she started having stomach pain. She was admitted to Mandi Khera hospital and soon after referred to Nalhar Medical College where her child was born dead,” she claimed. Her daughter-in-law is still hospitalized in critical condition, she said.
Junaid had a criminal record of cattle smuggling and was booked in five cases at different police stations, a police officer said. Shyam Singh had earlier said that an FIR was registered at Gopalgarh Police Station against five people — Anil, Srikant, Rinku Saini, Lokesh Singhla, and Monu — on the basis of a complaint lodged by the victims’ family members.
The accused have been booked under Sections 143 (unlawful assembly), 365 (kidnapping), 367 (grievously hurt after kidnapping), and 368 (wrongfully keeping in confinement) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), he said. The allegations leveled by Dulari Devi are false, and their family member is accused, which is why they are leveling allegations, claimed Shyam Singh.
(Inputs from PTI)
The Chenab Times News Desk