Sunday, 9 November 2014

Dental surgeon, wife booked for atrocities on 7-year-old daughter of NRI couple

JALANDAR: In the case of atrocities on a seven year old child her father's sister and her husband, a dental surgeon, have been booked by the police but it took almost six months to her NRI parents to get the guilty brought to book even as they had submitted a complaint to NRI Police Station here. 


The dental surgeon and his wife both are absconding as a separate case of fraud of Rs 1.26 crores has also been registered against them on the complaint of their close relative NRI couple. 

Victim Malika Jaswal, born in Canada, was living with her father Jatinder Jaspwal's sister Aradhna Shukla and her husband Dr Vijay Shukla, residents of New Sarajganj locality as her father had met with a very serious accident in Canada and underwent treatment for six years. "I had come to India when she was just three months old and our relatives - Shuklas - urged me to leave my daughter here as my husband needed a lot of care and nursing and they would look after her well. I discussed it my husband and then believing in Shuklas sincerity we agreed to the proposal and also started sending Rs One lakh every year so that our daughter could be looked after well," Malika's mother Mandeep Jaswal told TOI. 

However later they detected that they had been defrauded by the Shuklas when they sent them money for purchasing properties and also learnt that Malika was being shabbily treated and was also not been sent to school. 

On April 24 they lodged separate complaints of financial fraud and about their daughter while urging the police to invoke provisions of Juvenile Justice Act. However a case was registered only after they approached IG NRI Affairs Gurpreet Deo in September who immediately wrote to Commissioner of PolicE Jalandhar on September 19 for an enquiry by a senior officer. The case was registered on October 16 after an enquiry by ADCP 1 who found the charges leveled by her parents true including not sending the child to school for six months and recommended registration of a case. The dental surgeon and his wife were booked under sections 23 and 26 of JJ Act and section 420 of IPC. 

"Though the case has been registered after senior officers intervened but now we 'll be fighting not only the legal battle against the offenders but also against the official who did not register a case for nearly six months despite submitting evidence with the complaint itself. Neither statement of the child was recorded nor she was got medically examined," said Mandeep and Jatinder Jaswal.

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