A constable was arrested after a woman accused him of raping her inside a police station in Jharkhand’s Seraikela-Kharswan district, where she had gone to lodge a complaint, the police said on Saturday.
Jharkhand police arrested a constable for allegedly raping a woman inside a police station.
In her complaint, the victim had told the police that she had an altercation with her husband on Thursday evening and left home, apprehending that he would beat her up. She went to a neighbour’s house and contacted the police using her mobile phone. Based on the SDPO’s report, the police arrested the accused, and a court remanded him to judicial custody. The police have seized the clothes the accused was wearing at the time of the incident, and the process to send them to the Forensic Science Laboratory in Ranchi for examination was underway.
Five policemen, including the officer-in-charge of Gamharia police station, were also suspended for dereliction of duty following the incident that took place on the night of October 29.
A PCR van arrived at the house and brought her to the police station that night, the police said in a statement.
