FIR against DSP\, SI and constables for ‘police excess’

Madura

FIR against DSP, SI and constables for ‘police excess’

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Muthuraj, the then Inspector, Kadaladi, recently promoted and posted as DSP, Theni, and three others, attached to Kadaladi police station, were in trouble as the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) has directed the Kadaladi station officer to register an FIR against them on a complaint of police excess.

After holding that there was prima facie in the complaint, JJB Principal Magistrate G Isakkimuthu, on Monday, directed the station officer to register FIR against the police personnel, including Sub Inspector Sundarapandi and constables, Muthukumar and Sarvanakumar, under Section 75 of Juvenile Justice (care and protection of children) Act and Sections 294 (b), 324, 506 (ii) and 330 (e) of IPC and send the FIR copies to the board and Judicial Magistrate (JM) court in Mudukulathur.

He also directed Superintendent of Police Omprakash Meena to enquire into the police excess and submit a report to the JJB. After the offender alleged excess on the part of the four police men, while he was in their custody, the JJB had ordered them to appear before it on October 12 but only the SI and two constables appeared. They told the board that Mr Muthuraj could not appear as he was promoted as DSP and posted in Theni. They denied the boy’s allegations and excess on their parts.

As the juvenile offender alleged the police beat him with iron rod after placing wet cloth on his body, stood up on his knees and beat him on his buttocks after asking him to bend down to accept guilty, the Magistrate sent him to the Government Hospital here for a thorough medical check-up and directed the medical officers to submit a detailed report to the board.

The boy, a school drop out, told the JJB that the Kadaladi police had arrested him in the first week of this month in connection with an assault case and forced him to declare his age as 22, though he had said he was only 17 years. He was produced before the JM court, Mudukulathur, and remanded in sub-jail there.

Advocate D Rajasekar, who appeared for the boy, produced school certificates before the JM court to show that the boy was 17 years, 8 months and 14 days when he was arrested and wrongly remanded in judicial custody in the sub-jail. On JM court order, he produced the boy before the JJB.