NOIDA: In another setback to the UP police, a city court on Friday ordered registration of FIR against five senior police officers and 25 constables on charges of raping and robbing a woman in Bhatta village during the
anti-land acquisition agitation there in May this year, as well as for refusing to register a complaint against the alleged rapists.
The order comes almost a month after the police registered cases against 16 Provincial Armed Constabulary personnel for raping another woman in
Bhatta-Parsaul villages, after the national SC/ STs commission threatened to initiate contempt proceedings against the policeman for ignoring a lower court’s orders.
The counsel for the victim in the latest case, Ved Prakash Sharma, told TOI the court also asked police to submit a chargesheet before it against those named in the FIR after investigating the case at the earliest.