H§§H CGL‘RT OF CHHRTT¥$8ARH : BILA$¥JL§R BEV§$EON EENGH CGmr-J'E : HfJN’BLE sHR! HL DATTU, CJ & HaffBLE SH£§ VK. $HR§V§$$AVR “L ‘g’x‘iRiT ¢ET1T1GN $311.} $39. 11 §? 280? ?§T 4EQNE§ Santu Lal Agrawai, Gram Kharora, Distt. Raipur {CG}. VERSUS RESFDMDENTS 1) State i 0f Chhattisgarh, Through Secretary, Department sf Home, D.K.S‘ Bhawan, Raipur (CG) 2) Superintendent of PQHCe, Distt. Durg (CG). 3) Statécn House Officer‘ PS Nawagarh, Bemetara. Sieft. Durg(CG). 4\ Secretary, State Women Commiseien, 10, HIG, Kaviia a Nagar, Awanti Vihar, Temibandha, Raipur (CG PRESENT:- Sns'i Amrto Das, Advocate appears as Amious Curiae to assist me Ceurti Shi‘i Vinay Harit. Dye Advocate General for the State S hri Praveen Das, counsei for respondent No.4. Smt. Sudha Verma, Chairperson 8: Shri SK. Keharai, Secretary, Siate Women Commission and Shri DrSr Ratnore. SDO (Poiice) Bemetara, Darn, are present before this Court, asun— GRI’l'kL LimugR (Passed an 293‘ Mam 200?; The foiiowing orai order of the Court was passed by Hi. Datto, SJ. A letter was received by me iearneo‘ Chief Jueiioe of this instiuiion inter aiia bringing to the notice that Sm. Niti Agrawai, was burnt by her dosed kith and kin in the ietter the father of Smt. Niti Agrawai, had oompiained that in spite or his request to the State Women Commission end also to the State Police authorities, no action is being taken by the aforesaid persons. ) \ (2) After registering the letter received from the father of Smt, Niti Agrawah we had directed the Regisiry to treat the matter as Pubiic interest Li'rigatiori ("PIU for short) (3} Neticee 0f this petition were ordered to be ieeued and served on the Chairperson of the State Women Commiesion and aiso on the C roie inspector of Police Bemetara, District Borg. We had aiso directed rhem to be present before us. (4} Returns are riled by the respondents Firstiy, the Chairperson of State Women Commission has tendered apoiogy for deiay in taking cognizance on the request made by the father of Smti Niti Agrawai and she hae aiso made a statement that from now on she wouid take aii possibie steps to protect women rights as envisaged under the Chhattisgarh Raiya Mamie. Ayog Adhiniyam, $95. The SDO. of Police, Bemetara is also before Us in his return, he has stated that he has arrested a): the accused persons and filed chaiian before the Additional Chief Judicia! Magistrate for commission of offence punishabte under $eotions 498-A. 326 and 307 read with Section 34 of the lndian Penat Code. {5) We have taken the returns filed by them on record. Though we have our own reservations about the way in which the respondents have reacted to a smal! request made by the father of the victim Smtt Niti Agrawal, for the present we do not intend to take any action against them since they have been advised property by their counsel not to repeat the same mistake again (5) in view of the above, these proceedings are how closed, {7) The State Government shatt pay a sum of ReftspOGI- and the Chaitperson of State WomenCommgssion shati also pay a sum of Rs.5,CDOt— to Shri Amrtto Das, Advocate, who was asked to assist the Court as Arnicus , , K'y/A Curiae Ordered accordingiyt Sdl- V.K.Shrivastava Chief Jusu'ce Judge Judge Sdl-