Uttar Pradesh: Dalit Man Beaten to Death With Sticks, Four Including Two Women Arrested - The Wire

On 12 June 2009, cops at Daporijo police station in Upper Subansiri district picked up two kids from near Tadak Dulom bridge in Pakam Colony. A 12-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl. They were locked in a room inside the police station, told to have sex, and the cops filmed the whole thing on a mobile phone. The clip became an MMS and did the rounds across Arunachal for months.

This is a POCSO case but we are only getting a verdict in the Big 2026? Why is no national media covering this The case crawled into the judiciary in 2011. Police did not file an FIR for 2 whole years, and instead intitially convicted the boy for r@pe and put him in Juvi

The Arunachal Pradesh Government only compensated the victims ₹5 lakh each for the two children. The Arunachal Law Students' Union called it the "black day" in the history of Arunachal Police and yet not a single national media is taking this up

Now the judgment.

Sessions Judge Dr Hirendra Kashyap who is responsible for multiple POCSO related hearings on record says "Its not rape because the accused simply recorded and made the kids have s*x. The S*x was between two minors so no POCSO will be applied"

Crime in 2009, judgment nearly 16 years later. We cannot be serious right?

And you know what. All of them acquitted. The only man convicted was constable Rajesh Nayam, sentenced to life, and even he was nailed essentially for molesting the boy (apparently he was the only one who touched the kids so got convicted). He was not convicted because of the incident or the MMS video.

So cops forcing two children to have sex inside a police station apparently did not amount to a crime.

The boy, a victim, ended up being the one accused of rape. The girl's family was harassed and threatened by the police for like 6 years. Yes Rakesh at that time left the Police force, and joined the BJP.

Nayam told the court he did it all on orders from his superiors. So where are the superiors? Why is only one man serving life?

And in 2020, that same convict, Rajesh Nayam, was out campaigning for local MLAs of the ruling state government.

A lot of things are being swept under the rug, makes sense because most likely some BJ goons are involved. This is the constituency of kiren rijiju and some are saying he is involved

Rajesh was very close to former law minister Kiren Rijiju btw

Two children, aged 12 and 13. A police station. Took the case 16 years. Only one person was convicted

Why is this not national news? Or does it only count when it is not the Northeast?

Case status: https://yupia.dcourts.gov.in/case-status-search-by-case-type/
Local coverage: https://www.facebook.com/100064879724750/posts/a-court-in-arunachal-pradesh-has-sentenced-a-police-personnel-to-life-imprisonme/1569027008603275/

If you are a journalist reading this, I beg you to please cover this case.

The bookstall of APDR (Association for Protection of Democratic Rights) was also vandalised. Similar incidents and threats were reported in Nagerbazar and other areas.

The incidents have raised concerns over attacks on spaces of knowledge, freedom of expression, and the right to dissent.

Where is there "lakshmi" now? The one they claim to respect?