JAIPUR: A 19-year-old college student from Rajasthan’s Churu district filed a police complaint against an Army Subedar earlier this week, accusing him of seeking sexual favours from her in lieu of passing her in a National Cadet Corps (NCC) certificate test, and failing her in the exam when she refused to comply.
Cops have sought NCC help to understand if a subedar can fail a student in an exam. Churu Police booked the accused — under BNS Sections 75 (II) (demand or request for sexual favours) and 78 (II) (monitoring a woman’s use of the internet, e-mail or any other form of electronic communication) — and launched a probe.
The accused allegedly sent lewd messages to the teen and promised to help her get the NCC ‘C’ certificate in exchange for sexual favours, SHO (Women police station) Kartar Singh said. In her complaint filed Wednesday, the student alleged that the accused had failed her in the test and he, along with a friend, continued to harass her.
“Her statements were recorded Thursday. Based on the accused’s phone number provided by her, we are trying to ascertain the man’s identity. We have to corroborate whether the person named in the FIR was indeed associated with the Army and NCC,” SHO Singh said.
In her complaint, the student stated that she had joined an NCC camp in 2021-22 when the accused first sent her an objectionable message, promising to get her ‘C’ certificate tests cleared without any hassles. She added that the accused had even threatened to ruin her career if she failed to oblige to his demands, which she said proved true as she failed the exam.
“The case is being probed from all angles. It hasn’t yet been proven if the accused was indeed in the NCC or the Army. We are tracking the cell phone number the complainant has provided,” said a cop.
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