Odisha: Girl ‘raped’ by cop now missing

ROURKELA: A minor girl of Sundargarh district, who was allegedly raped, impregnated and then forced into an abortion by the then IIC of Birmitrapur police station, has been reported missing by SOS Children’s Village, Rourkela, where she had been kept by the government for her safety.
Police launched a search for the girl on Friday evening.
The alleged rape and abortion suffered by the girl, 13, came to the fore when the district child protection officer of Sundargarh had lodged a complaint in Raibaga police station on June 24, naming two policemen of Biramitrapur police station, a doctor of Biramitrapur CHC, two young friends of the girl and her stepfather as the accused.
Sources said the girl in her statement had claimed that a police team of Biramitrapur had taken her to the police station while she was waiting at a bus stop. She had alleged she was raped inside the police station by a senior policeman. She said she had been let go then, but was later brought back to the station to undergo the same ordeal repeatedly. After learning she was pregnant, the set of men named in the FIR allegedly made her undergo an abortion at the CHC on June 15.
DGP Abhay had ordered a probe into the case on June 30 and had dismissed Biramitrapur IIC Anand Chandra Majhi on July 1. Majhi was also arrested the same day.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme court directives on cases related to sexual assault)