A woman and her family members today sat on a dharna outside the Uluberia Police Station in Howrah district, demanding justice and accusing the police of wrongfully arresting her father.
The woman, a student of BA (first year) in a local college, alleged that the police had demanded Rs 1,000 from her to lodge a complaint, which she had gone to file on Thursday last after a few youths tried to molest her in the Dasbandha area of Uluberia while she was returning home from tuitions on Wednesday evening.
"The police did not file anything and refused to act on her complaint unless she paid the money. When they didn't the money, they came to her home yesterday and arrested her father," alleged a family member of the woman.
Senior police officers at Uluberia Police Station rejected the allegations and said, the woman's father was detained in connection with an old complaint.
"We have detained one person from the Dasbandha area and interrogations are on," they said.
