Jammu and Kashmir Excessive Court docket Wednesday refused to quash an FIR towards a senior Indian Air Power officer for the alleged rape of a feminine colleague, as an alternative asking the police to finish its probe and file its chargesheet.
The case pertains to an FIR from September, when a wing commander of the Indian Air Power was accused of sexually assaulting a girl colleague throughout a brand new 12 months’s social gathering on the Srinagar Air Power Station, the place they’re each stationed, on January 1. The lady officer claimed that the male officer – her superior within the power – had known as her to his room underneath the ruse of some new 12 months presents and assaulted her.
The accused officer was looking for a quashing of the FIR and bail within the case.
In its order, the court docket quashed two trial court docket orders pertaining to the central authorities’s request to have the probe transferred to the Indian Air Power. Within the first order, handed on October 10, the trial court docket had allowed the petition however recalled this every week later claiming that the accused had “suppressed details”.
Regardless of this, nevertheless, it allowed the central authorities to file a brand new petition requesting switch of the probe, saying it may very well be carried out after the chargesheet is filed.
“The court docket has dismissed the petition filed by the accused officer,” Aisha, an advocate who represented the lady Air Power officer within the case, instructed The Indian Categorical. “The accused officer had sought quashing the FIR towards him”.
In her criticism to the police, the lady officer alleged she was subjected to steady harassment, sexual assault and psychological torture by the authorities on the Srinagar Air Power station and mentioned she was compelled to strategy the police upon discovering that no motion had taken by the power.
After the FIR was registered in September, a Particular Investigation Workforce (SIT) was set as much as probe the lady officer’s allegations. In the meantime, the central authorities approached the trial court docket on invoking Part 124 of the Indian Air Power Act 1950 – a provision that offers with court docket martial proceedings. It will definitely challenged the recalling of October 10 trial court docket order within the HC.
In its order Wednesday, the HC, which court docket clubbed the petitions collectively, mentioned that the bail software of the accused officer might be heard individually.
