SHO OFF DUTY, 8 COPS SUSPENDED IN RANI BAGH ‘TORTURE’ CASE
NEWDELHI: An FIR was registered on Friday against the station house officer (SHO) and eight other personnel of the Rani Bagh police station in northwest Delhi for allegedly beating up a 50-year-old man and his two sons inside the police station last week.
While the SHO Praveen Ahlawat is off duty, eight cops have been suspended and a departmental enquiry has been initiated in the matter.
The victim alleged the cops tried to pull his wife inside and manhandled her.
Deputy commissioner of police (northwest) Aslam Khan said a case had been registered under sections 323 (for assault), 341 (punishment for wrongful restraint), 354 (molestation) and 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention). “A departmental enquiry has been initiated,” Khan said.
The eight police personnel, apart from SHO Ahlawat, who have been named in the FIR by the complainant, are ASIS Ranveer and Himmat Singh, head constables Raghubir and Anil and constables Amit, Saurabh, Mohan and Praveen.
The complainant said that around 10.30 pm on May 6, policemen towed away his scooter parked outside their residence in Saraswati Vihar.
When his youngest son went to the police station, the cops demanded Rs 200 to release it, he alleged. The son told the police that the scooter was parked outside their house and refused to pay up, the complainant said.
When he didn’t return, his elder brother went to the police station who was also thrashed and abused, he said.