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Bhatta-Parsaul 'rape': Panel warns Uttar
Pradesh
Monday October 24, 2011 07:35:58 PM,
IANS
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Lucknow: The National
Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) Monday said that it would
initiate contempt proceedings against the Uttar Pradesh government
if it fails to act against policemen who allegedly raped women in
Bhatta-Parsaul villages in Greater Noida in May.
"If an FIR (first information report) is not registered in the
Bhatta-Parsaul case, it means the Uttar Pradesh government
officials are indulging in contempt of court," NCSC Chairman P.L.
Punia told a TV channel here.
"The commission has powers to initiate contempt proceedings.
Although the commission has never exercised these powers but it is
willing to do so if an FIR is not registered," he said.
Punia's comments follow reports that women from the villages
complained that they were raped the day police fired at villagers
during a land acquisition protest and FIRs were not registered.
Violence erupted in Bhatta-Parsaul in May after farmers protested
alleged forceful acquisition of their lands by the state
government.
A court in Noida Oct 10 directed the Uttar Pradesh government to
register criminal cases against 16 policemen for alleged excesses
they committed on women and others during the farmers' agitation
in Bhatta-Parsaul.
The order came on complaints of seven women who also swore in
affidavits that they were raped.
Police had refused to register any case of rape as the allegation
was termed as an "afterthought" following the visit of Congress
general secretary Rahul Gandhi to the villages.
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