Mudigere youth allegedly harassed by police, forced to drink urine
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The police sub-inspector hooked up to Gonibeedu Police Station in Mudigere taluk of Chikkamagaluru allegedly forced a Scheduled Castes youth to drink urine in his custody just lately. The incident got here to mild after the youth wrote to senior cops searching for motion in opposition to the PSI.
Based on the criticism filed by Punith, Punit K.L, a resident of Kirangunda, the Gonibeedu police registered a case in opposition to PSI Arjun on Saturday night. The case has been booked on below sections of the IPC associated to wrongful confinement, inflicting damage, torture, wrongful confinement to extort a confession, in addition to the provisions below the SC-ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
The Gonibeedu police had taken custody of Punit round 11 a.m. on May 10, primarily based on oral complaints by villagers, who alleged that he was accountable for discord between a person and his spouse within the village. The police then took him to the police station. Punit, talking to The Puucho over the cellphone, alleged that the police beat him up for a few hours.
At one level, he requested for water and PSI, refusing to give him water, made Chetan, who was within the lock-up in reference to a theft case, urinate on Punith’s face, alleged Punit. “Chethan refused initially. But he was forced to urinate on me as he was threatened that he would also be subjected to severe torture. Later, the officers made me lick the urine on the floor,” Punith stated.
The police let him go dwelling solely late within the evening at 10.30 pm. “All this was done without a complaint against me,” he stated.
After Punith wrote to the SP and different senior officers in regards to the incident, Chikkamagaluru Superintendent of Police Akshay M. Hakay ordered a preliminary inquiry into the incident by DySP of Chikkamagaluru sub-division. The enquiry officer additionally recorded Punith’s assertion.
When The Puucho contacted Mr. Hakay, on Saturday, he stated preliminary enquiry had been accomplished and the officer had been shifted from the police station. “Now departmental inquiry will be done. If he is found guilty, the official will get maximum punishment,” he stated. However, SP refused to share the end result of the preliminary enquiry.
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