Maharashtra: SPCA suggests action against four cops after couple’s 5-year ordeal

Speaking to The Indian Express, the complainant, Damodar Parik, stated that the full occurrence caused truthful overmuch trauma that his woman has been receiving psychiatric attraction for the past 5 years. “My woman kept blaming herself for the loss, which led to her processing symptoms of depression… Her suffering drove maine to combat each these years, and I anticipation that the authorities takes the SPCA’s proposal into information and takes indispensable enactment against them,” helium said.

Parik is simply a small-time businessman from Aurangabad, and his wife, Seema, whose parents are from Chikhali successful Buldhana, had visited her parents’ location successful 2019. While she was returning to Aurangabad connected the Nagpur-Aurangabad ST autobus connected June 14, 2019, 3 women came and sat adjacent her. “She was carrying golden ornaments successful her bag, and astatine astir 11.30 am, a pistillate sat adjacent to her portion 2 others sat connected the level betwixt 2 seats. They tried to prosecute her successful conversation, and aft immoderate time, the 3 women alighted from the autobus astatine Deolgaon Raja successful Buldhana,” said Parik.

Seema aboriginal got disconnected astatine the CIDCO autobus basal successful Aurangabad astatine 4.30 pm. Three days aboriginal during Vat Purnima, Seema wanted to instrumentality retired the jewellery from her container and realised that they were missing. She suspected that the 3 women had stolen them. The mates past went to a adjacent Vaijapur constabulary presumption successful Aurangabad (rural) to lodge a complaint.

Constable Somnath Kachru Dhadvad, present retired, who was astatine the constabulary presumption then, refused to registry a complaint, citing territorial contented arsenic Seema had alighted the autobus successful the jurisdiction of the MIDC CIDCO constabulary presumption successful Aurangabad city, Parik said. “We requested him to registry a zero FIR and transportation the probe to the constabulary presumption concerned. Dhadvad refused and instructed america to spell to the MIDC CIDCO constabulary presumption oregon to hold for a mates of hours until his elder officer, Anant Kulkarni, came to the constabulary station,” helium added.

Hoping that MIDC CIDCO would instrumentality cognisance of the matter, the complainant and his woman travelled there. However, a constable identified arsenic Gaikwad besides refused to registry a complaint, claiming that the 3 women suspected of stealing valuables from her container had alighted the autobus astatine Deolgaon Raja successful Buldhana.
“As I insisted, constabulary inspector Surendra Mahale accepted my exertion but informed maine that they wouldn’t registry an offence. On June 21, we went to the Deolgaon Raja constabulary presumption successful Buldhana to lodge a complaint, but they besides refused to registry an FIR,” said Parik.

Parik past wrote an email to the main minister, the Home department, and the State Police Complaints Authority (SPCA). However, arsenic cipher took cognisance of his complaint, helium staged an indefinite hunger onslaught connected August 15, 2019, successful the tehsil office. “I started astatine astir 8 am, and arsenic it was the tehsil office, constabulary unit came and informed maine that they were acceptable to registry an FIR but they person closed the probe and the jewellery is inactive missing,” helium added.

Even aft 5 years, helium continued to combat against the inaction, starring him to prosecute the substance with the SPCA, aft which an bid was passed connected October 25. The bid read, “It is recovered that Anant Kulkarni, past PI of Vaijapur constabulary station; Surendra Malale, past PI of MIDC CIDCO; Somnath Kachru Dhadvad, past HC of Vaijapur constabulary (retired); and Gaikwad, past PC of MIDC CIDCO, person committed superior violations of the instrumentality and abused their respective lawful authorities arsenic contemplated nether Section 22Q (1)(a)(viii) of the Maharashtra Police (Amendment & Continuance) Act, 2014. They person besides committed misconduct arsenic prescribed nether Regulation No. 2(n) of the Regulations, 2017.”

The SPCA has further directed the authorities authorities to dainty the bid arsenic a preliminary enquiry for the intent of instituting disciplinary proceedings and to initiate disciplinary proceedings oregon immoderate different ineligible enactment against the constabulary officers.