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According to officials, a teenage girl was allegedly forced to strip and was molested by the police when she refused to pay a bribe for lodging a rape complain in the Kushinagar district of Uttar Pradesh state, north India.
The region’s police chief Lalit Kumar Singh on Sunday said that “the girl complained that the station house officer took her into a room and asked her to remove her clothes, so he could confirm if she had been sexually assaulted,"
The victim, aged 18, "alleged she was later molested by the officer, who had demanded $800 to lodge the rape complaint," he added.
The Times of India reported that the alleged assault occurred after her father, who had taken her to the station, refused to pay the bribe.
The police launched a probe against the officer, in the Kushinagar district of Uttar Pradesh state, after the father complained to the police superintendent on Tuesday, the report said.
Singh said on Wednesday the police had charged the officer with molestation, and arrested a suspect of the original rape.
Sexual violence has attracted a lot of public attention in India since the fatal gang rape and death of a lady on a bus in New Delhi last year, but activists say little has changed as women and girls are still being sexually attacked.
It is said that police officers' patriarchal and misogynist mindset deters victims from reporting sexual violence.
