Bombay High Court orders ACP to take sensitisation course on crimes against women

Investigating officer did not have the courage to touch the accused, a high-profile politician, the Bombay High Court said.

The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court has ordered the Aurangabad Police commissioner to ensure that an assistant commissioner of police (ACP) from the city undergoes a sensitisation course on crimes against women. A division bench of Justice Ravindra Ghuge and Justice Bhalchandra U Debadwar was hearing a petition filed by a sexual assault victim, seeking directions to ACP Nishikant Bhujbal to arrest the accused, who is a leader of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). According to the FIR, the politician had sexually assaulted the woman on November 14, 2020, and threatened her with dire consequences. The FIR was registered on December 26, 2020. Bhujbal was appointed as the investigating officer (IO) on December 31, 2020.