SC Slams Haryana Police, Orders Women Officers to Probe Gurugram Rape Case
New Delhi: Condemning the Haryana Police for its “shameful” and “insensitive” approach in the rape case of a three-year-old child, the Supreme Court constituted a Special Investigation Team comprising women IPS officers to conduct a fair investigation into the crime that took place in Gurugram on Wednesday. A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi asked the Haryana government to immediately inform the SIT and directed the Gurugram Police to hand over the case records to the inquiry panel.
The bench attacked the Haryana Police for downgrading the offense from a harsher sentence to a milder one in the FIR lodged under the POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses) Act.
A doctor at a private hospital was also brought to the agenda because he completely changed his version of the child’s statement, and it was said, “It was shameful for a doctor to do this.”
The top court issued show cause notices to Gurugram Police officials and asked them why action should not be taken against them for shoddy investigation in the case.
The high court said, “Why can’t the police go to the victim’s house? Are they kings? The person who went was arrested on corruption charges,” and described this approach as “shameful” and “insensitive”.
The board also issued a show-cause notice to the Gurugram Child Welfare Committee (CWC) as to why they should not be removed.
“As seen in the February 5 report, the conduct of the CWC members further increased the victimization. The entire police force, from the commissioner to the sub-inspector, made every attempt to prove that the child had no evidence and the parents were not making any case. There is no room for doubt that an offense under Section 6 was clearly committed under POCSO,” the bench said.
The top court then directed the Gurugram district judge to hand over the case to a senior woman judicial officer heading a POCSO court in the city.
The three-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted by two female domestic servants and their male accomplices for about two months in a community in Sector 54, police said.
They added that following the allegations made by the boy’s parents, an FIR was registered at Sector 53 police station on February 4 under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and POCSO Act.
According to the police, although the incident took place between December 2025 and January 2026, the parents reported the matter to the police after the girl told her mother about her ordeal.
