Accused’s DNA test to be conducted

Deepkamal Kaur

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, June 20

After a span of over three years, it is now that the Jalandhar police have woken up to the cause of helping a poor rape victim child and is now mulling to go ahead with a DNA test of the accused in the case.

Daughter of a daily wager, the five-year-old girl was sleeping in the open near New Subzi Mandi in Maqsudan when the two accused, including her uncle, picked her up and raped her brutally in the wild growth in a nearby place.

“I was away for some work and my five children were at home with my wife. The incident had occurred on May 25, 2014. It was a hot that day and my family chose to sleep outside. My wife had then got inside home to fetch water when the accused took the victim away. She kept looking for her for two hours after which she found them running away after leaving her in a bad condition,” said the victim’s father.

“For six days then, we kept calling the police but a case was registered only six days later on May 31.

Even after the case was registered, we had to hold a protest to get the police action done. One of the accused got away with less than a month of imprisonment. There was tremendous pressure on us to withdraw the case then. The police have still not filed a challan and they had attempted to get the case closed but the Punjab and Haryana High Court ordered a re-investigation after which the case is being probed again now,” said BSP leader Balwinder Kumar.

ACP, North, Navneet Singh Mahal, said, “We are checking if we can find the reports of the DNA tests of swab done earlier. If we will be able to trace it, we will surely call the accused and get their DNA testing done to establish the case.”