SHILLONG: The CSWO has expressed concern over the attitude of certain police officers in some of the outposts and police stations who disregard and avoid helping women who face violence against them.
“The home department should immediately revamp its force and sensitize its police so that more complications do not arise which will give a boost to perpetrators of crimes against women”, CSWO president Agnes Kharshiing said
A case in point is the assault of a woman identified as Sistina Lamare at Umraling, Raid Madan Kyrdem, Ri Bhoi district on January 14 by four men. The miscreants had also assaulted her son and torched their house over the matter related to her land documents.
After the incident, she went to Mawlasnai Out Post to complain, but the police allegedly harassed her for coming alone.
Kharshiing said that she spoke to the DSP Ri Bhoi and informed him about the attitude of the In Charge of the Mawlasnai Out Post, S B Siangshai. “The CSWO demands that this officer should be booked for misleading the village people and terrorizing the village people from filing FIRs which are very serious in nature and he should be immediately removed from this outpost.
” He has also failed to make arrest of the accused when they were already in the police station and this is a connivance on his part”, Kharshiing alleged.