IPS officer put innocent people in jail to save his friend

Bilaspur. To put pressure on the woman to withdraw the rape case, the accused, with the help of one of his IPS friends, got eight false FIRs registered one after the other against a Dalit woman and him. In these cases, the victim had to go to jail. Hearing the petition of the victim woman, the High Court expressed surprise at the attitude of the police and issued a notice to the state government and asked it to file a reply.

chhattisgarh news A Dalit married woman had lodged a complaint in City Kotwali Bilaspur that between the year 2018 and 12 December 2019, accused Piyush Tiwari (35), a resident of New Colony Tikrapara, Raipur, introduced himself as unmarried and DSP and lured her into marriage and raped her. Later the victim came to know that the accused is neither a DSP nor unmarried. Then she ended the relationship and registered a case against him under the SC/ST Act along with rape. After this, accused Piyush Tiwari and his IPS friend Arvind Kujur threatened the accused woman that if she withdraws the case, they will implicate her in a false case. Later, the victim got married in Indore. According to the petition, on learning about the marriage, Piyush Tiwari filed a false case of fraud in Kumhari police station. The police arrested the woman’s father, brother and husband and sent them to jail.

In the court, the victim’s advocate Aman Saxena told that in this manner, 8 fake FIRs have been filed against the victim and her family. When the victims got bail in one case, another FIR was filed. This happened several times, due to which the woman’s family remained in jail continuously. During the hearing, the division bench of Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Sachin Singh Rajput expressed displeasure over the attitude of the police and said that in such a situation, the entire life of the victim’s family will be spent fighting the case. In the court, the police said that two cases have been closed, investigation is going on in the remaining cases. The High Court adopted a strict attitude and stayed the trial in all the cases. The High Court has directed IPS Arvind Kujur, Piyush Tiwari and Abhishek Gazalwar to reply on affidavit within two weeks. The petitioner has also been asked to submit an affidavit in the next two weeks.