A magistrate in Rajasthan’s Karauli district was booked for allegedly asking a Dalit gang rape survivor to strip and show her injuries, an officer said on Wednesday.
Deputy SP (ST-SC) cell Mina Meena said that the survivor had filed a complaint on March 30 alleging that the Hindaun court magistrate asked her to take off her clothes on the pretext of examining her injuries.
“She refused to strip and after recording the statement in the court on March 30, she registered a complaint against the magistrate. The case was registered with Kotwali Police Station under charges of outraging modesty,” Meena was quoted by PTI as saying.
The magistrate has been booked under section 345 (wrongful confinement) of the IPC and SC/ST (prevention of atrocities) Act. The accused has not been named in the FIR.
Police said the 18-year-old girl was gang raped on March 19. A case was registered in the matter at Hindaun Sadar Police Station on March 27.
According to a TOI report, the magistrate asked the girl to strip even after the police had made her undergo a medical examination, following which she had appeared before the court to record her statement on March 30.
In the FIR dated March 30, the complainant said, “After recording my statement, the magistrate asked me to take off my clothes. He said, ‘I want to see the injury marks on your body.’ I replied, ‘You are a man. I would have shown if there was a female magistrate instead.’ Despite this, the magistrate said, ‘I want to see the injury marks on your body’.”
In February this year, a 25-year-old rape survivor sustained serious injuries after she was shot at and attacked with a sharp-edged weapon by a man accused of raping her and his accomplices in the Kotputli-Behror district of Rajasthan.
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