The Uttarakhand High Court has granted police protection to the woman who has accused BJP MLA Suresh Rathore of rape.
While directing the state to provide the complainant with police protection, the HC said that there have been several instances where the prosecutrix have been killed and their family members have been subjected to harassment and pressures.
Meanwhile, the court also issued notices to the MLA and two of his associates and have given them four weeks to respond.
The bench of chief justice RS Chauhan and justice Alok Kumar Verma said, “Needless to say that it is the foremost duty of the State to protect not only the prosecutrix but also her family members. For, instances are not wanting when the prosecutrix has been killed and her family members have been subjected to harassment and pressures,” read the court order.
The court has directed SSP Haridwar and SHO Bahadrabad to immediately provide police protection not only to the woman but even her family members and the properties owned by them. The HC added that if the MLA or his henchmen carry out any threat against the woman or her family, the police are to take action against them in accordance with the law.
The orders were issued on Monday after the woman filed a petition before the court alleging that ever since the FIR was registered against the MLA from Haridwar’s Jwalapur constituency, she and her family members have been facing harassment and are being threatened by Rathore and his associates.
Interestingly, on the same day, the single judge bench of Justice NS Dhanik heard a plea by Rathore seeking a stay on the FIR and protection from arrest. The bench gave the counsel appearing for the state of Uttarakhand a week to seek instructions from the government on the petition filed by Suresh Rathore, BJP MLA from Haridwar’s Jwalapur.
SOURCE ; timesofindia.
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