AMBALA (Satish Handa): Women Police Station Ambala City on the complaints of neighbours in a Ambala City colony frequently hearing cries of a child during night started investigations which revealed that elder daughter of age over 12 years during interrogation disclosed been quite often raped by her father under the influence of liquor and on her refusal mercilessly beaten by him. The younger daughter in a statement made to police also blamed her father and uncle (younger brother of her father) sexually torturing her and playing with genital organs.
Devinder Kaur in-charge police station told that on the statement of both minor girls a case was registered against both alleged accuse: complainants father and uncle under child abuse act, arrested them, produced in the court ordered to lodge them in jail. She told that both minor girls were handed over to department of Child Welfare Council (CWC) for counselling which sent both to Children Shelter Home. Investigation by police as well as CWC revealed that about six years ago marriage conflict between parents of both minor children started resulting break between the two, followed by divorce with mutual consent in a ‘Panchayat’ when the mother married to another person a resident of Ambala City and left along with a feeding male child when the husband refused to hand over both daughters.
DevinderKaur SHO Women Police Station told that during counselling by CWC both victim minors expressed desire to stay with their mother and court too on the statement made by both minors under section 164 ordered both minor girls should be handed over to their mother. SHO told that mother of both minors had also visited police station demanding possession of both daughters.