The excessive court docket informed the accused Wing Commander to fulfill the investigating officer (representational)
Srinagar:
The Jammu and Kashmir Excessive Court docket has granted pre-arrest bail to a Wing Commander of the Indian Air Drive who’s going through rape prices. The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Sunday filed a primary data report (FIR) after a lady Flying Officer gave a criticism, alleging rape by the Wing Commander.
“Because the petitioner who’s serving as Wing Commander… and in case of his arrest his popularity in addition to the service profession shall be jeopardised,” the bail order said.
The excessive court docket ordered the police to not file a chargesheet within the case with out its permission. “This court docket has allowed the investigation to proceed. Nonetheless, we direct that the chargesheet shall not be filed with out the permission of this court docket,” stated the order by a single-judge bench.
The excessive court docket ordered the Union Territory administration’s Further Advocate Common to file a standing report by the following date of listening to. It stated the Wing Commander ought to be launched on bail if he’s arrested. The excessive court docket informed the accused Wing Commander to fulfill the investigating officer from September 14 to 16, and each time wanted thereafter.
The accused has to provide a surety of Rs 50,000, can not depart Jammu and Kashmir with out the permission of his Commanding officer, and can’t contact any prosecution witness, the excessive court docket stated.
In her criticism, the 26-year-old Flying Officer stated she has been struggling harassment, sexual assault and psychological torture for the final two years.
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The officer has stated that at a New Yr get together on the officers’ mess on December 31, 2023, her senior requested if she had obtained the reward. When she stated she had not, the Wing Commander stated the items have been in his room and took her there. When she requested the place his household was, he stated they have been elsewhere.
The Flying Officer alleged her senior then compelled her into oral intercourse and molested her. “I repeatedly requested him to cease doing it and tried to withstand it in all methods doable. Lastly, I pushed him and ran away. He stated that we’d meet me on Friday once more when his household leaves,” she has stated.
The Flying Officer stated it took her some time to register what occurred to her. “I used to be afraid and did not know what to do as there have been situations earlier than additionally whereby I used to be discouraged to report. He visited my workplace publish this incident… He behaved as if nothing occurred and there was no signal of regret in his eyes,” she stated.
The girl officer stated she reached out to 2 different ladies officers and so they guided her to file a criticism. “I am unable to describe (the) psychological agony, being an single woman who joined forces and was handled in such (a) heinous method,” she stated.
Following her criticism, she stated, a Colonel-rank officer was ordered to analyze the incident. The Wing Commander was made to take a seat down along with her twice in January this yr to report the statements, she has alleged. She has stated she objected to the senior officer’s presence and later the investigation was closed to “conceal errors of administration”.
She then filed a contemporary utility to the interior committee and it met two months later. “The bias of Stn (Station) authorities to assist the sexual offender was very heart-breaking for me,” she has stated, alleging {that a} medical examination was not performed until she insisted a number of instances.
“IC (inner committee) didn’t do its job correctly as instructions had come from greater formation to maintain the end result as impartial. Everybody was aiding the sexual offender,” the Flying Officer has stated. “I requested for interim reduction and requested for depart a number of instances however I used to be denied depart every time,” she stated, alleging that her requests for a special posting for herself or the Wing Commander weren’t heeded both.
“I’m compelled to socialize with these folks and attend occasions with my abuser… Whereas he’s having fun with. I get harassed in (the) fingers of authorities each day,” she has stated.
The inner committee, she has stated, stated that it’s inconclusive whether or not the incident occurred or not due to the shortage of an eyewitness and closed its probe in Could. “Is not it widespread sense that somebody wouldn’t do sexual assault in entrance of a witness?”
The Flying Officer has complained of “steady psychological harassment” and “social boycott”. “My private communications have been continually monitored unofficially. The people I communicate with are harassed by the authorities.”
The continuing harassment, she stated, has had a extreme influence on her psychological well being. “I’m dwelling in fixed worry, below 24/7 scrutiny and my social life has been fully disrupted. The harassment has pushed me to suicidal ideas, and I really feel completely helpless. I’m unable to hold on with my day by day life, and my social interactions are carefully monitored and discouraged by authorities. I’ve endured this torture for too lengthy, and I’m at my breaking level,” she has stated.
