After the blame game, an open war has broken out between Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, who complained of \u201cinterference\u201d by police officers in the recording of gangrape victim\u2019s statement, and Delhi Police which today demanded a probe into the \u201cleakage\u201d of her letter to the Home Minister.<\/p>\n
Dikshit, who has been making a strong pitch of bringing the city police under Delhi government from Home Ministry\u2019s control, shot off a letter to Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde seeking a high-level inquiry into the complaint of Sub- Divisional Magistrate.<\/p>\n
In the complaint, sources said, SDM Usha Chaturvedi claimed that three senior police officers had prevented the video recording of the victim\u2019s statement. It was also alleged that the police officers wanted the SDM to use a questionnaire they prepared.<\/p>\n
When she refused to do so, sources said, police officials misbehaved with the SDM.<\/p>\n
Delhi Police came out with a strong denial and also demanded a high-level probe into the \u201cleakage\u201d of Dikshit\u2019s letter to Home Minister. \u201cWe deny the allegations levelled by SDM Usha Chaturvedi.<\/p>\n
\u201cDelhi Police demands a high-level inquiry into the leakage of a top-secret letter written by the Chief Minister to media,\u201d Delhi Police spokesperson Rajan Bhagat said.<\/p>\n
Ever since the public outrage over the December 16 gangrape of the 23-year-old paramedical student in a moving bus in south Delhi, the Chief Minister has made it clear that she cannot be held responsible for actions of police which is not under her government\u2019s control.<\/p>\n
Police has made known its unhappiness over Dikshit passing on the buck and raking up a \u201cnon-issue\u201d at this juncture by writing to Shinde.<\/p>\n
In her letter, Dikshit cited a communication to her by Deputy Commissioner (East) B.M. Mishra that Chaturvedi had complained about senior police officials\u2019 \u201cinterference\u201d while she was recording the statement of the victim.<\/p>\n
The Chief Minister was \u201cvery upset\u201d over the contents of the letter sent by the Deputy Commissioner and decided to write to Shinde seeking a thorough probe into the incident, Delhi government sources said.<\/p>\n
Home Ministry sources said they are likely to order a probe into the Chief Minister\u2019s complaint. \u201cWe are taking the complaint very seriously,\u201d a senior Ministry official said.<\/p>\n
Elaborating on police\u2019s stand, Bhagat said the Assistant Commissioner of Police (Vasant Vihar) had written to Divisional Commissioner seeking the services of a SDM for recording the statement of the victim and Chaturvedi was assigned the job.<\/p>\n
Doctors treating the victim at Safdarjung Hospital informed the SDM that she was fit for statement, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen the SDM arrived there and camera man was going inside, the victim\u2019s family objected to the presence of the videography team thinking that they were from media. They were then told about the procedure but the family then in writing said that they would not like videographing the statement recording process,\u201d Bhagat said.<\/p>\n
As the family objected, he said, doctors did not allow the video team to record the proceedings.<\/p>\n
He also said none of the police officers was present in the room when the SDM recorded the victim\u2019s statement and that the victim herself signed all the papers in this regard. .<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was no interference from Delhi Police\u2019s part,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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PTI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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