Stripped, tied my legs, threw me into room’: Army captain’s fiancée shares ‘torture’ story at Odisha’s Bharatpur police station
Stripped, tied my legs, threw me into room’: Army captain’s fiancée shares ‘torture’ story at Odisha’s Bharatpur police station
BHUBANESWAR: An Army officer’s fiancée who was allegedly tortured by cops at Bhubaneswar’s Bharatpur police station on Sept 15, recounted her horrifying ordeal after being released from Jail.
The 32-year-old restaurateur-cum-lawyer broke down and alleged that the inspector-in-charge (IIC) Dinakrushna Mishra and four other personnel, who were suspended on Wednesday, stripped her and kicked her.
“The IIC’s barbarism crossed all limits. He made inappropriate gestures at me,” said the victim, who was arrested by police on charges of attacking a lady police Officer.
The five policemen have denied all charges and are now facing a probe by the crime branch. The victim said police framed her in the false case and arrested her to save their own skin.
The Orissa high court granted her bail on Wednesday. According to the woman, she and her fiance were returning home after shutting her restaurant late at night on Sept 15 when they were waylaid and assaulted by hooligans.
Woman seeks arrest of IIC, other Cops.
They immediately went to Bharatpur police station to file a complaint, but instead of receiving help, they were treated like criminals, she said. The victim claimed that when she requested police to arrest the hooligans, they began misbehaving with her and her fiance.
She denied the allegations of assaulting a lady police personnel, saying, “When two lady cops dragged me by my hair and assaulted me, I tried to fight back. For self-defence, I bit the hand of a woman officer.” The victim further alleged that police tied her hands and legs with ropes and threw her into a room where a male officer abused her.
The woman’s nightmare continued when the IIC arrived around 6 am. “To my shock, the IIC threatened and made several obscene indications at me. He later arrested me for a crime that I never committed,” she said.
The victim, who is currently undergoing treatment at AIIMS Bhubaneswar, demanded that the former IIC and others who assaulted the Army officer and molested her be arrested.
My fiancée was stripped
When the Army captain tried to tell the police personnel about the protocol of arresting a serving defence officer for which an arrest warrant was necessary, the cops hurled abuses at him.
The Army officer said he was illegally detained in the cell from 3 am to 6 am. As per his complaint, IIC Mishra reached the station around 6 am. When his fiancée, who is a lawyer, asked the IIC about his illegal detention, she was dragged into a room by cops, stripped and assaulted.
He said the IIC harassed and molested his fiancée. “I could hear her screams for 30 minutes. Later, my fiancée was illegally arrested and forwarded to court,” the Army captain wrote in his complaint. The govt on Wednesday suspended five personnel of the Bharatpur police station.TOI
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