NEW DELHI:
It was a diabolic frame-up, carried out with great
precision. The target was a Delhi businessman who had
seen a policeman molesting a woman and refused to
flinch from giving his testimony against the cop
despite dire threats. So, a group of policemen
allegedly hatched a intricate plan to fix the witness
on rape charges.
Several top officers are alleged to be involved in
this conspiracy, hatched and executed in 2000, among
them the molestor-cop, Inspector C M Dutta, two SHOs,
two sub-inspectors, a couple of lawyers, a woman who
played the role of a ‘rape’ victim and four
more accomplices, including two women. And the victim
- 49-year-old Sushil Gulati.
Gulati’s
nightmare began on August 29, 2000. It
was around 10.30 pm when the cops reached
his house at Rajouri Garden and arrested
him for ‘rape’ in a moving car.
He was pushed around and thrashed in
front of his family, including his
daughter studying in class XII. The
entire neighbourhood had gathered, quite
unbelieving of the charge. Some protested
but the cops took away Gulati and his
Maruti car.
As far as the cops
were concerned, they had fixed Gulati true and
proper. We bring you details of the frame-up - some
of which might appear offensive - only to give you an
idea of how far the policemen had gone to trap an
innocent and public-spirited man.
On the
morning of August 29, one Rajni Gupta, who
played the role of the ‘victim’ for
a consideration of Rs 40,000, reached the
chamber of lawyer Mohd Altaf - a
co-conspirator - in Tis Hazari courts after
having intercourse with one Babloo Mandal,
whose blood group matched Gulati’s.
Altaf apparently examined Rajni and concluded
that to make the ‘rape’ more
realistic she had to have sex with another
person. When Rajni baulked, a compromise was
reached - she was injected semen of another
accomplice, Sonu, with a needle-less syringe
and some semen was scattered on her salwar
and underwear. She was also asked to consume
liquor and tobacco to get dizzy. She was then
dropped near St Stephen’s hospital to be
‘discovered’.
Framed witness
spent 52 days in jail
5 Sep 2006, 0149 hrs
IST,Pradeep Thakur,TNN
NEW DELHI:
Rajni, who was allegedly part of the controversy in
which a witness to a molestation was framed, lay near
St Stephen’s Hospital, while two women —
Najma and Savita — allegedly kept a watch on
her, and sub-inspector Narendra Kumar of Subzi Mandi
police station was informed.
He reached the spot, called a PCR van and took the
‘victim’ to Hindu Rao Hospital. Kumar, too,
is now said to be an accomplice and Rajni was
allegedly dumped at a time when he was on duty so
that Kumar himself could take up the investigation.
Late that night, after picking up Sushil Gulati and
impounding his car, the cops planted
‘evidence’ of rape in the car, including
Rajni’s pubic hair. According to Gulati, he was
beaten up in the police station and asked to
ejaculate so that his semen could be collected.
Gulati refused. But his blood was taken for testing.
Faced with such ‘incriminating evidence’
and virtually with every police officer against him,
Gulati should have had as much chance of of survival
as a snowflake in a furnace.
But Gulati’s neighbours simply refused to buy
the police story. When the ‘rape’ was
reported by newspapers next morning and a time given
for the ‘rape’, they realised it was a
frame-up. At 8.30 pm Gulati’s car was right in
front of his house — and many had seen it. It
was certainly not being used by Gulati, as alleged by
the police, when they accused him of raping Rajni in
the moving car.
Rajouri Garden residents approached the then police
commissioner Ajai Raj Sharma. They drew his attention
to the glaring loophole in the police case. Sharma
saw the point and handed over the case to the crime
branch and sleuths kept a close tab on Rajni.
One day a little note
dropped at her house was intercepted by crime branch
sleuths. It was from Babloo who advised Rajni to
leave as soon as she got her money
Already, the sleuths had gone to Bareilly to check
out the permanent address given by Rajni, which was
discovered to be fake. Rajni was then picked up for
questioning. On September 11, she confessed to the
fabrication.
The truth was out. But in typical cop style, the
police arrested Dutta, lawyer Altaf, Babloo, Rajni,
Savita and Najma but let off the other co-conspirator
cops.
Gulati himself was released after spending 52
harrowing days in jail. The case against him had
crumbled after DNA testing showed his semen
didn’t match with that found on Rajni. Samples
from Rajni’s clothes, in fact, matched with that
of Babloo’s and Sonu’s.
Having gone through hell, Gulati was determined to
get to the bottom of the conspiracy. He went to the
courts seeking punishment for the other policemen. On
August 11, 2006 — that is, six years later
— Gulati won a victory. On that day a city court
ordered the police to reopen investigations against
14 persons, including six police officers.
The six officers against whom the investigation will
now be carried out include the then SHO of Subzi
Mandi, Balbir Singh, then SHO of Rajouri Garden
Hoshiar Singh, then Additional SHO of Subzi Mandi
Hariram Malik, SI Rajbir Singh, chowki in-charge of
Rajouri Garden PS, Veenit Sony, the then chowki
in-charge of Subzi Mandi PS and Dutta’s wife,
Sanyogita, then inspector, women’s cell, Ashok
Vihar.
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