MANGALORE : The State Human Rights Commission has voluntarily registered two cases against the Bajpe Sub-Inspector of Police Pramod Kumar who has been accused of committing atrocities on a youth by placing him under illegal detention for seven days.
As already reported, the Bajpe police had abandoned the youth named Padmanabha near Gurupur Kaikamba, fearing action after the court issued a search warrant following a complaint lodged by the youth’s mother seeking to trace her son, who she said had been illegally detained by the Bajpe police for no fault of his.
It was also reported that the police had wanted Padmanabha and three others detained by them, to admit a guilt of a theft which they had actually not committed.

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“ I was beaten up for seven days”
MANGALORE : “ The Bajpe police made me stand in underwear and beat me up for seven days in the lock-up saying they will not spare me if I did not admit that I had stolen a pump,” this was how Padmanabha, the youth who was illegally detained by Bajpe police for seven days for no fault of his, explained his horrifying experience in the police lock-up.
Speaking to this correspondent during his visit to the office of advocate Dinesh Hegde Ulepady, after he was released by the cops, Padmanabha said “ On January 5, the police who came to our house, enquired about me with my mother and asked me to come to the station. Had I committed the theft, then I would have escaped the same night. But not knowing why I was summoned to the station, I went to the station along with my mother on the morning of January 6. There, the cops asked me to sit in a corner, after removing my clothes. Even when my mother pleaded before the cops wanting to know the reason for all this, the police had not replied and only told that they will send me in the evening. When my mother arrived in the evening they said I will be sent in the morning. When my mother came to the station on the morning of January 19, she saw me sitting in a corner in my underwear. I was coughing and feeble due to the beatings of the cops,” he explained.
There were three others !
“ Even three others had been detained illegally along with me. They were Bhasker (26) of Tenka Mijar, Ganesh Gowda (28) and Ismail (21) of Moodbidri. If I was released following the search warrant through advocate Dinesh Hegde Ulepady, the three others were sent behind bars after registering a case of theft,” says Padmanabha.

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