Her parents, who had earlier refused to accompany her to the police station to
file a complaint, did not come to take her home and she has now been lodged at
a Nari Suraksha Kendra.
Her parents cannot be traced, said District Superintendent of Police Piyush
Patel. The girl was raped in a police quarter in Bhuj on Wednesday by two
policemen, who have since been arrested.
Sources close to the girl's family said her parents had ''disowned her'' the
day she told them that she was raped in a quarter in Bhuj city police station
premises. They did not help her lodge a complaint and ''some Muslim leaders of
the area sent her and the two other girls to the District Superintendent of
Police,'' sources added.
Meanwhile, days after the rape, Kutch police on Monday denied that there had
been any delay in initiating action against the two policemen involved in the
crime.
An identity parade will be held on Monday, during the one-day remand granted by
a local court on Sunday.
''There was no delay. I came to know about the incident when the rape victim
and two other girls complained to me on Saturday. I immediately ordered an
investigation. When the police officer confirmed the shameful crime inside the
police station premises, I asked for their immediate arrest and an offence of
rape was registered against them under Section 376 of the Indian Penal Code,''
Patel said on Monday. He said forensic experts had already collected evidence
from the scene of the crime.
LCB chief D R Agravat, who conducted preliminary investigations that led to the
arrest of Police Sub-Inspector Barkatali Chavda and ASI Raghuvirsinh Jadeja,
said photographs of the three girls who were caught with some boys in camp area
of the city were taken not at the police station, but at a residential quarter.
This was done at the instruction of the accused. Agravat said this had been
confirmed by the police photographer and was a strong point in the girl's
favour.
