GHAZIABAD: A 30-year-old gangrape survivor has accused a sub-inspector of Masuri police station of trying to force her to change her statement against the accused.The complainant, a resident of Dasna, has stated that four persons had raped her on June 6, 2018. The woman said she complained against the accused the same day. However, the investigating officer did not record her statement for the next 15 days.The woman claimed that she subsequently met the SSP on two occasions and sought his intervention in this regard. “Consequently, the investigating officer came to my house and asked me to give a statement in the favour of the accused in lieu of Rs 2 lakh,” the woman said in her complaint.The woman further accused the sub-inspector of filing a statement on his own in the case diary and submitting the same in the court. He told the court that the woman could not come to record the statement as she was pregnant. Due to the false report, the woman moved the Allahabad high court in July that ordered the sub-inspector to complete the investigation within four months.However, later when she again met the SI and sought his response in view of the high court order, the woman claimed the officer refused to budge from his stance.The woman’s counsel, Khalid Khan, said finding no respite, the woman approached the CJM court. “Taking cognizance of the woman’s complaint against the sub-inspector, chief judicial magistrate Ravindra Prasad Gupta has fixed September 4 as the date for recording her statement in the matter,” Khan said.The sub-inspector has refuted the allegations against him.

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