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| Delhi child rape case: 'Willing to resign 1000 times, but that won't help,' says police chief Neeraj Kumar
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| INDIA
, 22-April-2013
6:32:4 AM |
| For a fourth day, large protests in Delhi expressed the widespread anger and frustration over the barbarous attack on a five-year-old. Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar ruled out resigning, a demand chanted loudly outside the police headquarters in the capital.
"I am willing to resign 1000 times, if that will help. But it will not address the problem," he said
The child was kidnapped from outside her home in East Delhi last week and was found three days later, battered and bleeding in a room rented by a man from Bihar in the same building where she lived.
Her mother heard her cries and alerted the police, which then broke into the locked room and recovered the child. Her husband claims that the police then offered him RS 2000 to keep quiet about the torture inflicted on his child -doctors would later find pieces of a candle and a bottle inserted in her.
The police has been asked repeatedly why it did not think of thoroughly combing the building in its search for the little girl. Mr Kumar today repeated the weak defense offered by the cops- that the parents of the child had not listed the neighbour or anyone else as a suspect.
The police chief also said that he had responded promptly, suspending a police officer who was filmed slapping a woman demonstrator on Friday. It's not clear why Mr Kumar appears to believe that by punishing a clearly out-of-line officer, he has done something remarkable.
Mr Kumar's resignation was demanded first in December, not just by many activists but by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, in the days after a medical student was gang-raped on a moving bus which rolled through a series of police check posts without being stopped despite its illegal tinted windows and white lettering that announced it was a school-bus. The student died two weeks later after the savage assault.
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