In a most inhuman incident, a senior police officer in Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar district beat up an 18-year-old girl with a belt in a police station when she and her fiancé visited him to lodge an FIR about her abduction and dumping at a brothel from where she was rescued on January 5 this year.
The police alleged that the girl was beaten up because they suspected that the couple were trying to register a fake complaint. The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), which took suo-motu cognisance of the incident based on a media report, has sent notices to the Maharashtra DGP and the Ahmednagar Superintendent of Police, calling for reports on the incident within four weeks.
The girl was allegedly kidnapped by four unidentified persons, including a woman, from Ahmednagar on January 3, dumped at a prostitution den in Dhule and beaten by brothel keepers till her rescue. The press report has also mentioned that the Ahmednagar police finally registered a case at the Tofkhana Police Station on January 10.
Keywords: Ahmednagar district, NHRC, Human Rights violation, Maharashtra police
Are these barbarians senior police officials or the GESTAPO rearing
their heads again?It is no wonder that the common man has lost all trust and faith in every arm of the Government including the judiciary with people like Dinakaran and Balakrishnan.
Wow! Don't call him a police officer. Irresponsible people don't deserve designations. Police often misuse their power -- I remember a police officer demanding me for bribe to return my lost stuff they recovered from the culprit. I think this happens everywhere in India. I was under an impression that a few police make money unethically but it wonders me when police end up taking Rs.50 and let go off the rider who doesn't wear his helmet.
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