Bhiwani Killings: FIR Against Rajasthan Cops For 'Assaulting' Accused's Family During Raid

Haryana Police filed a case against 30 to 40 unidentified Rajasthan police officials after a woman complained that they assaulted her pregnant daughter-in-law during a raid.

Charred remains of a vehicle where bodies of two Muslim men were found, at Loharu in Bhiwani district, Haryana. ( Image Source :PTI )

Haryana Police registered a case on Tuesday against 30 to 40 unnamed Rajasthan police personnel after a woman complained that her pregnant daughter-in-law lost her child after she was allegedly assaulted by them during a raid to apprehend her son, who is an accused in the Bharatpur abduction-murder case, news agency PTI reported. 

According to the police, an FIR has been registered at Nagina police station here under sections 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapons), 149 (unlawful assembly), 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 452 (house-trespass), and 312 (causing miscarriage) of the Indian Penal Code, as stated in the report. 

"We had exhumed the body of the stillborn baby whose postmortem was done by a board of doctors on Monday and the final report is expected. After Dulari Devi's complaint, an FIR was filed against unnamed Rajasthan police," Nuh Superintendent of Police Varun Singla was quoted as saying by PTI.

Devi is accused Srikant Pandit's mother, and the woman who lost her kid is his wife. He is one of five people associated with the Bajrang Dal who was first charged with abducting and killing two men from Bharatpur, Rajasthan, whose burnt bodies were discovered in Loharu, Haryana's Bhiwani, on Thursday.

The Rajasthan Police has denied Devi's allegation.

"On Tuesday, Nuh police registered an FIR against 30 to 40 unidentified Rajasthan police," an official told PTI.

On Friday morning, Rajasthan Police were conducting a raid at Srikant's house in village Maroda when the claimed event occurred. Devi claimed that her full-term pregnant daughter-in-law gave birth to a stillborn child after being attacked during a raid by 30-40 Rajasthan police officers, both in uniform and in plain clothes.

In her complaint, Pandit's mother also claimed that the police forcibly removed her two other kids. After these charges, Nuh Superintendent of Police Varun Singla launched an investigation.

The official stated that the reason for the death of the child is still unknown because the viscera examination report from the forensic science laboratory is awaited, the PTI report said.

The two victims, Junaid and Nasir, were reported to have been abducted and murdered by cow vigilantes.

Earlier, Bharatpur Superintendent P Shyam Singh said that Rajasthan and Haryana police had gone to Pandit's house but never entered.

Four more suspects were eventually mentioned in the Bharatpur case in the FIR.

Pandit is a member of the cow protection group led by Bajrang Dal member Monu Manesar, who is one of the eight accused who have eluded capture.

(With Inputs From PTI)