Rohtak: A woman, who alleged that she was raped last year, died after she and her husband consumed poison outside a police office and claimed the police didn’t investigate their complaint.
Alka died at the Civil Hospital in Rohtak and her husband Sunil is in a critical condition, Rohtak district police chief Alok Mittal said.
The couple were taken to the hospital after police personnel found Alka vomiting outside the office of the Rohtak range Inspector General of Police (IGP) V Kamaraj.
Alka took poison after she failed to meet the IGP. She alleged that five people had raped her in Samalkha town in Karnal district last year. The police there allegedly did not register a case despite her complaint. She then met the IGP who forwarded her complaint to the Karnal district police chief.
However, the case was later cancelled by the police who said that nothing could be found during investigations.
Senior Haryana police officials here and in Chandigarh refused to comment on Alka’s death.
The latest suicide by a rape victim is another embarrassment for the Haryana police and the state government within one year.
In June last year, another young woman, Sarita, had consumed poison inside the Haryana police headquarters in Panchkula near Chandigarh, alleging that the police were not taking any action on two of its own personnel who had raped her inside a police station in Rohtak April last year.
Rohtak is the home town of Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. His son, Deepinder Singh Hooda, is the sitting MP from Rohtak.
Haryana goes to polls for all its 10 Lok Sabha seats on Thursday.
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