Aruanchal sex MMS victims

ITANAGAR: Arunachal Pradesh State Commission for Women has asked the government to pay Rs 5 lakh each to two minor victims, a boy and a girl, of an MMS case involving Daporijo police station.

On June 12, 2009, police had picked up the boy and the girl and forced them to have sex inside the police station while they recorded it on a cellphone. The MMS was in circulation for months but it was discovered only in March this year after the boy's father complained to the police.

The sexual act, which was captured by policemen on duty in their mobile phone handsets, was in circulation for a long time and came to light only in mid-March.On June 12, 2009, the men in uniform had allegedly forced the minors into having sex inside the police station.The incident was exposed in March 2011 after the boy's father filed a complaint with the police.APSCW chairperson Komoli Mosang also demanded a high-level departmental enquiry committee to investigate the case headed by an officer not below the rank of superintendent of police, preferably an IPS officer.The adhoc committee constituted by the commission, in its report, has squarely blamed ASI Boham Bo and head constable Duyu Tatu.APSCW vice-chairperson Mepung Tadar, who headed the four member adhoc committee, informed that the members personally interacted with the victims and the accused.Apparently, ASI Bo had threatened the family members of the victims against filing a complaint on the matter.

The victim's families were living under considerable pressure and that is why it took one year for them to lodge an FIR," Mepung said.It is claimed that ASI Bo had a rape case pending against him at Kalaktang in West Kameng that was filed way back in 1991 when he was a constable.Besides ASI Bo and head constable Tatu, the committee recommended stringent punishments to the other accused constables Rajesh Nayam and Tapar Narah.The adhoc committee also suggested that the state government strictly adhere to the Supreme Court's D K Basu judgement and install CCTVs at all police stations across the state to avoid such incidents.