BENGALURU: Activists seeking answers in the Anekal gangrape case are being made to run from pillar to post, both on the investigation and the hospital front, even as the police are still in dark about the suspects. Parijatha ST, volunteer of Stree Jagruthi Samithi, who brought the victim to the hospital, said, “We met Anekal Superintendent of Police Amit Singh and he raised doubts over whether she was raped or not. When we spoke to the hospital authorities, they refused to share reports from the obstetrician or gynaecologist and asked us to go to Gosha Hospital. When we approached Gosha, they said the reports are at Bowring. They are reluctant to share her reports with us.
Another shocker is that we were told she will be discharged tomorrow. She can’t even walk.” Singh, however, said, “We are going by the victim’s statement of gangrape. We are taking this case very seriously. A lot is happening on the investigation front which cannot be revealed. The victim was in trauma. That is why we could not make the sketches of the suspects, but we will after she is discharged.” DySP Umesh SK, said, “There has been no progress in the investigation. The Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) reports will take one or two months’ time. The samples were taken from the victim around the same day she was admitted to the hospital. We did not get any sketches made as the victim did not describe them adequately.” The victim’s doctor at Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital, where she is admitted, said she may be discharged in a week.
“We haven’t made her stand up and walk yet but she will be able to walk on her own only after a long rehabilitation process for which she will require physiotherapy regularly. She is not under any active orthopaedic treatment right now. But the departments of medicine, gynaecology, medicine and psychiatry are involved in her treatment. The victim is likely to take anywhere between weeks and months to walk on her own. During that period she is not required to be hospitalised,” the doctor said. The victim was allegedly gangraped by six men in Anekal on November 23 and was found by an NGO worker two days later at a bus stop.