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A retired Indian high court judge will investigate allegations that a woman was physically and sexually assaulted by a group of police inside a police station in the eastern state of Odisha, the authorities say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After the allegations, levelled last week by the 32-year-old woman and her fianc\u00e9 \u2013 an army officer \u2013 led to a huge outcry, four police officials, including three women, were suspended. A fifth policeman was transferred. The action came after the state\u2019s crime branch opened an inquiry into the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Warning: This report contains details some may find distressing<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A video of the woman, a law graduate who runs a restaurant in the state capital Bhubaneswar, detailing her alleged abuse by police early on the morning of 15 September has been shared many times on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The footage makes for a difficult watch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a wheelchair, with a collar around her neck and one arm in a sling, the woman repeatedly breaks down while narrating to journalists what she says happened to her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She said she had gone to Bharatpur police station with her fiance after closing her restaurant at around 01:00 because they had been harassed by a group of men on the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They asked police to send a patrol car quickly to intercept the men who couldn\u2019t have gone far, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe police refused to take down our complaint, instead they abused us. When I told them that I was a law graduate and knew my rights, they got even more angry.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BBC: A retired Indian high court judge will investigate allegations that a woman was physically and sexually assaulted by a group of police inside a police station in the eastern state of Odisha, the authorities say. After the allegations, levelled last week by the 32-year-old woman and her fianc\u00e9 \u2013 an army officer \u2013 led to a huge outcry, four police officials, including three women, were suspended. A fifth policeman was transferred. The action came after the state\u2019s crime branch opened an inquiry into the case. Warning: This report contains details some may find distressing. A video of the woman,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42209,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42207\/revisions\/42209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}