NCW fire for Chautala govt over mutilation

The Om Prakash Chautala government in Haryana is under fire for failing to take action against officials who ignored the case of Nirmal Kaur...

The Om Prakash Chautala government in Haryana is under fire for failing to take action against officials who ignored the case of Nirmal Kaur whose nose was chopped off by a neighbour last month. The officials did not file an FIR and the medical examination was shoddily done, the National Commission for Women has said.

The NCW, which had rubbished Haryana’s ‘‘compliance’’ report on the incident, wants Chautala to suspend the three policemen who had not filed the FIR when Nirmal had approached them at the police chowki near Jagmalera village in Sirsa district even as her nose was bleeding profusely.

‘‘It was the duty of the policemen to take Nirmal to hospital and they ignored her even when she herself approached them,’’ says the NCW report. ‘‘We were informed just yesterday that only one of the policemen has been transferred and transfer is not a punishment,’’ NCW chairperson Poornima Advani told The Indian Express.

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The March 21 incident in the remote Haryana village also questions the role of Panchayats, the NCW said. ‘‘In a place which is so distant from the administrative gaze, Panchayats should not have arbitrary powers to deny justice to a hapless woman,’’ said NCW’s Nirmala Seetharaman, who had investigated the incident.

The NCW has also come down heavily on the doctor who treated Nirmal ‘‘very casually’’ and filed a ‘‘flimsy’’ report on her injuries.