Kurukshetra: Six police personnel, including a DSP, have been booked for allegedly failing to take appropriate action in a dowry complaint, an official said on Wednesday. Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Raj Singh was station house officer (City) in Thanesar, last year when the complaint was lodged. Besides the policemen, a government doctor has also been booked in the case, the official said. On the direction of a court here, police registered a case against the policemen and doctor on Tuesday for not taking appropriate action on the complaint related to dowry harassment and torture made by the daughter of a retired police sub-inspector, he said.

It was alleged that the police officers ignored the affidavits submitted by the woman alleging dowry demands and being beaten up by family members of her in-laws. The Kurukshetra police have registered a case under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) against the six police personnel and the doctor. The court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Natasha Sharma ordered registration of the case under IPC sections 166, 167 and 217. These sections relate to public servant disobeying law with intent to cause injury to any person, framing an incorrect document with intent to cause injury and disobeying direction of law with intent to save a person from punishment or property from forfeiture.