A youth has been awarded life imprisonment by a court here for raping a minor girl belonging to Scheduled Caste community as the judge pulled up the Uttar Pradesh police officials for their "inhuman and insensitive" approach and asked the government to take action against the erring policemen.
Additional Sessions Judge Savita Rao came down heavily on UP police personnel for their glaring discrepancies in the probe including that the police had not even lodged an FIR on the day of the incident and the case was registered after the intervention of senior officers.
The case was lodged at Baniyadher Police Station in Sambhal in UP and was later transferred to Delhi on the direction of the Supreme Court.
The court, while sentencing 24-year-old convict Rameez, a resident of Sambhal, observed that everyday newspapers are flooded with reports of rape of women because of "the schizophrenic attitude of those who do not give importance to human values and human rights of females in the society.
"This observation is made since the court owes a duty for cherished ideals of the preamble in the Constitution in establishing a just and fair society where everyone is given justice and assuring the dignity of individual and is constrained to call such action in passing appropriate order, having noted the glaring discrepancies, non-action, inhuman, lackadaisical and insensitive approach of the police officials concerned in utter disregard to all the settled cannons of law.
