Probe ordered into allegations against Kochi city police

Migrant family accuses official of demanding bribe in rape case

District Police Chief (Kochi City) H. Nagaraju has ordered a probe into the allegations levelled by a migrant family that the city police had demanded a bribe to release their five children, and foisted bogus cases on three sons of sexually abusing their sister.

The incident pertains to the missing of two daughters, one a minor, of the migrant family settled in Pachalam, in August.

A team from the Kochi city police had traced the girls to Delhi with the help of the local police. “We had initially registered a missing case but later converted it into a case of abduction and rape after it emerged that she was sexually exploited by a man whom she had acquainted during the train journey, at a lodge in Delhi. During her medical examination in a hospital in Delhi she made the startling revelation to the medical officer that she was sexually abused by her three brothers since she was a minor. Following this, we registered another case under POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act,” said Mr. Nagaraju.