Overview

• The Chhattisgarh State Women’s Commission directed DGP Arun Dev Gautam to register separate FIRs on complaints by three Narayanpur women and to submit a report within 15 days.
• The complainants allege Bajrang Dal workers assaulted, molested, and used casteist slurs against them inside the Durg GRP station on July 25, naming Jyoti Sharma, Ravi Nigam, and Ratan Yadav.
• Commission chair Kiranmayee Nayak said only limited CCTV from one gate was provided and highlighted conflicting claims over whether the GRP station falls under railway or state police control.
• Two Kerala nuns, Preethi Mary and Vandana Francis, and a tribal man were earlier arrested on trafficking and forced conversion charges tied to the same episode and are out on bail after the women said they were being taken to Agra for jobs.
• The women first approached Narayanpur police, then the commission after no case was registered, and the panel warned it will seek NHRC intervention for compensation if police fail to act.