Delhi Police bribed for sex scandal case?
Sudhir Chadda, Special Correspondent
December 19, 2004

The video clip is circulating like wild fire and Delhi Police is refusing to arrest the Eleventh standard student. People in New Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai are talking in public that Delhi Police, the Delhi politicians and even the some big name congress leaders are bribed on the case. They want to do every thing but focus on the main issue – the sex video clip in school.

Despite a city court issuing a non-bailable warrant against the XI standard former DPS student, who shot the pornographic video clip on his mobile phone and then circulated it, Delhi cops have "still not" arrested him. "We have not arrested the boy till now," DCP, Delhi Police's Economic Offences Wing (EOW), Prabhakar, told Indiatimes News Network at 11.30 am on Saturday. 

The DCP further added that there was absolutely "no timeframe" as to when the boy would be taken into custody. "As of now we have no idea when we''ll arrest the boy," Prabhakar said. "We’ll see how to go about it since he is a juvenile." The question is, now that even the court has demanded the arrest of the DPS student, son of a Delhi-based diamond merchant, why are the cops so reluctant in bringing him to the law? 

Meanwhile, the arrest of 25-year-old IIT-Khargpur student Ravi Raj, who peddled DPS sex video clip on baazee.com, and the CEO of the auction portal seems to have taken the focus away from the main issue - the creation of the video clip. Another eight people, who bought the clip from the IIT-ian, have been hunted down by the police, two from as far as Mumbai. Curiously, the central figure in the case - the boy, who shot the video on his mobile phone and even circulated to his friends, has so far gone scot-free. DCP Prabhakar had flatly told Indiatimes News Network on Friday that the boy would not be arrested. 

Later in the evening, in a press meet, Prabhakar clarified that since the boy is a "juvenile", the police were seeking complete legal recourse before deciding to detain him. However, Indira Jai Singh, a senior Supreme Court advocate, said the boy "should definitely be arrested for obscenity and sharing it with public". "He is totally liable under obscenity laws," she asserted. "He might not have sold the clip but he definitely created it and shared it with people, which is a crime," Indira said. Another advocate, Geeta Luthra seconded Singh. "Of course he is liable under Section 509 for (Outraging the modesty of a woman) and under Section 3 and 4 of IPC for indecent exposure of a woman," she stated. Ravi and the eight buyers have been booked under Section 292 (IPC), which deems selling and buying of pornographic material a crime. "Even if the video graphing was consensual, the transmission of the clip wasn’t. The boy should be arrested immediately," said Luthra. 

But the standard XI student is very conveniently still resting in his south Delhi’s posh New Friends Colony home, just seven kilometres away from the crime branch office in the Qutab Institutional area. As the story goes so far, the cops went all the way to Kharagpur in West Bengal to arrest Ravi, that too only after they realised that the MMS clip circulation was getting out of hand. Ravi was the first person to be arrested in the case on Tuesday, when the incident was exposed across the country three weeks ago. The crime branch also sent a team to Mumbai to arrest those who bought the clip from the website. Of the eight buyers, six are from Delhi. Criminal experts feel the cops, knowingly or otherwise, are trying to shift focus of the case from the original school sex scandal to that of peddling porn on the net.