Chandigarh/Yamunanagar: Yet another tainted top cop walks free in Haryana, with former IGP MS Ahlawat, under fire for allegedly molesting a woman in 2002, evading arrest even after an FIR was lodged in Yamunanagar against him on Tuesday, eight years after the incident. Even as the country boils over in anger against former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore convicted for molesting Ruchika Girhotra in 1990 when she was 14 for having roamed free for almost 20 years before he was sent to jail, Haryana police seem to wary of arresting Ahlawat, who was then Yamunanagar SP.
The victim Arvinder Kaur had met Ahlawat in 2002 after she was threatened by some of the accused in a dowry case lodged against her husband. On Wednesday, both Haryana home minister Gopal Kanda and DGP RS Dalal refused to answer calls from TOI. Ahlawat too could not be contacted. It took more than eight years to lodge an FIR against Ahlawat despite a long-struggle by the victim,now 36. While a number of inquiry committees were set up by the Haryana government in this period, yet another probe was ordered on Tuesday by a police team. Ahlawat has been charged with outraging modesty of a woman, assault and criminal inmidation. We will arrest the accused as soon as we get any substantial evidence against him, Yamunanagar SP Sibash Kabiraj told TOI.A high-level probe team,headed by a DIG was investigating the matter and decision on filing an FIR was pending at a higher level, said Kabiraj, when asked why an FIR was not lodged in eight years. A special team has been set up to look into the case on Wednesday.It has collected all the documents from the state headquarters.
We will find out why the case was not registered in last eight years, said Kabiraj, who is monitoring the progress of the case. The delay, however, has left people enraged. They should have registered the FIR immediately as in cognizable offences,police are duty bound to register an FIR as per Section 154 of CrPC, said Kulbir Singh Dhaliwal, advocate, Punjab and Haryana High Court.
The complainant Arvinder Kaur, a lawyer herself, is not satisfied with police action on her complaint and said that Ahlawat should have been booked for attempt to rape. He (Ahlawat) took me to his bed room at his official residence of Yamunanagar where he attempted to rape me. However, I managed to escape from his clutches. So, he must be booked for attempt to rape in place of outraging the modesty of a woman, said Arvinder Kaur. The FIR has been registered on the basis of complaint of 2008, though, the case should have been lodged on the basis of my latest complaint submitted to chief minister MBS Hooda on last Saturday at his Chandigarh residence, she added. The SP said that they can add more sections in the FIR, if the charges proved during the police probe.
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(source-toi)
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