Jalandhar, Oct. 17 -- A day after the Jalandhar rural police booked sub-inspector Bhushan Kumar, former Phillaur station house officer (SHO), for alleged inappropriate behaviour and making sexual advances towards the mother of a minor rape victim, the Punjab state Child Rights Protection Commission has written to the Jalandhar police to add sections of POCSO Act in the FIR.

The case has been registered under Section 74(1) (physical contact and advances involving unwelcome and explicit sexual overtures) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 67(d) (guilty of sexual harassment in the course of duty) of the Punjab Police Act, and other sections of the IT Act at Phillaur police station.

The commission has also written to the child development and ...