Stepmom still at large

CHANDIGARH: Police have failed to arrest the stepmother who put a five-year-old girl in a gunny bag and thrashed her more than 24 hours after registering an FIR against her.

Sources said Jaspreet Kaur has fled the city with her parents.

At the same time, Sector 29 resident Manmohan Singh, the father of the girl, and Devinder Singh, Industrial Area, Phase I, police station house officer, recorded their statement before the Chandigarh Commission for Protection of Child Rights (CCPCR) in Snehalya on Tuesday noon.

Manmohan Singh said the commission asked him about the delay in lodging a complaint in the case. He said he came to know about the incidents only after his elder son showed him videos on his mobile phone around a month back.

Chandigarh Commission for Protection of Child Rights chairperson Harjinder Kaur said the commission’s investigation has been completed. “A report will be sent to the higher authorities in the city. The case was reported around a month back but the police registered the case late,” she said.

Jaspreet Kaur had been caught slapping the girl while her leg was in a cast and stuffing her in a gunny bag in a series of mobile videos.

Jaspreet

Kaur is also accused of breaking the leg of the girl by twisting it a few months back. The son had showed the videos to Manmohan, who had then lodged a complaint to the

Child Welfare Committee

in Sector 19 and the police. Manmohan and Jaspreet had got married in 2016. Manmohan shifted from Belgaum, Karnataka, around seven months back.