NEW DELHI -Indian Police arrested a Border Security Force (BSF) officialover allegations of sexually exploiting a 23-year-old woman of Odisha’sKoraput district , officials said on Monday.
The accused Suresh Kumar was remanded in judicial custody on Monday afterhe was brought to Odisha. Kumar, who is from Haryana’s Sonepat, wasarrested in January 25 from his barrack in Murshidabad.
Kumar had befriended the 23-year-old woman at Malkangiri where he wasposted in 2013 for anti-Maoist operations, Malkangiri superintendent ofpolice P Jagmohan Meena said.
Kumar allegedly took her to his home at Sonepat, promising to marry her. In2014, the couple had a girl, but soon after, the jawan stopped coming home.After waiting for six months at Sonepat, the woman came back to herparental place at Malkangiri, Meena added.
The woman lodged a complaint with Malkangiri police in February, 2017.
The police, however, found that the accused was already married in 2006.
The arrest of the BSF jawan comes amid demand by opposition parties inOdisha for a CBI probe into the alleged rape of a minor girl by four jawansof the CRPF’s elite anti-Maoist force, the Commando Battalion for ResoluteAction (CoBRA).
The minor girl committed suicide earlier this month.
The forensic examination report of the girl’s innerwear has now turnedcontroversial after contradictions emerged over the presence of semen.
The state forensic science laboratory, which is in the eye of controversyover allegations of tampering with evidence, denied the accusations sayingthe tests were done with the most sophisticated instrument such as DNAsequencing technique, and was beyond doubt.