New Delhi: An internal inquiry report of the Jammu and Kashmir Police on Tuesday indicted one of its officials for allegedly indulging in sexual abuse of women constables and corruption.
The incident comes at a time when the state police is already facing flak for fake encounter killings in the valley.
The inquiry states that Assistant Sub-inspector Feroze Ahmad Najar, who was in-charge of deployment of women police contingent, had sexually abused them and charged money for keeping them off duty depending on the period they wanted to avail as free holidays.
"In the totality of the circumstances, facts, audio and documentary evidence available, the charges of corruption and sexual abuse are established against ASI Feroze Ahmad," news agency PTI quoted the report of the inquiry officer.
A lady constable Shahnaz Akhter, in her statement before the inquiry officer, said that Najar would ask her to identify beautiful girls so that he would exploit them sexually.
"Najar was supplying lady constables to the officers for sexual exploitation," Akhter was quoted by PTI as saying.
She added that she barely managed to escape from his clutches.
On another occasion, Akhter said Najar had taken one of the lady constables to the house of a constable at Bemina.
While directing the SSP of crime branch to investigate the matter, the court directed the DGP and other authorities concerned to assist the crime branch in the investigation.
The SSP was also directed to furnish his report to the chief judicial magistrate of Srinagar who shall monitor the investigations.
The magistrate was asked to submit the first report by February 28 and the case was listed for first week of March.
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