SHO sent to police lines, 6 policemen suspended in Rani Bagh torture case

NEW DELHI: The SHO of Rani Bagh police station has been sent to police lines after a realtor levelled allegations that he was tortured by him and his two sons inside the police station in North West district. Six other policemen have been suspended in the incident.

The incident came to light when complainant Surendra Agrawal's scooty was picked up allegedly by the policemen from outside his house in Rani Bagh in the intervening night of 6 and 7 May.

“My son went to the police station to find out about the matter. He was brutally thrashed by the policemen inside the police station without telling him the reason. Then, my elder son Tushar went to see his brother but he too was attacked by the policemen with an iron poker. His toe was almost chopped off by the iron poker. He also has injury marks on his back," said Surender Agrawal.

The complainant alleged that when the guard of the building who had followed his sons to the police station told him about the torture, he rushed to the police station with his wife.

“The policemen also misbehaved with my wife. They even did not let the PCR van come in when we called 100. My son was bleeding profusely and even his medical was not conducted,” Agrawal said.

The SHO was not inside the police station when the alleged torture took place but when he returned, he tried to sheild the policemen and asked them not to file a complaint, the complainant said. However, the complainant later went to a private hospital for treatment where the toe was operated on.

The victims lodged a complaint with the Home Ministery and on Tuesday they went to meet the police Commissioner who ordered an inquiry into the incident.

“We have sent the SHO to police lines. We have also suspended six other policemen including an ASI and five constables,” said Aslam Khan, DCP North West. Sources said that the police picked up the scooty as it was parked on the road for several days and the cops suspeted that it might have been dumped by the thieves.

However, the family has said that they want the accused policemen to be arrested. GURUGRAM: The driver of a speeding SUV that allegedly rammed into a cab on Golf Course road, killing two persons and critically injuring a private airline woman pilot heading to the airport, has been arrested, police said on Tuesday. Mohammad Sazid, who had escaped after the accident on Sunday, was arrested on Monday evening.

Mohammad Sazid was arrested on Monday evening after he was discharged from a hospital where he had gone for treatment following the accident,” said Ravinder Kumar, spokesperson of Gurugram police.

Two of his friends were also inside the SUV at the time of the accident and suffered minor injuries. They were returning from Rishikesh and mistakenly entered the underpass from the wrong side of the 16-lane Golf Course road on Sunday morning, Kumar said. There was yet another addition in the series of deadly accidents that has gripped Gurugram over the recent days when a Mahindra Scorpio coming from a wrong side crashed with a fast moving Maruti Swift car on Sunday.

The freak accident occured at the Bristol Chowk underpass between 5:30 am and 6 am on Sunday. The underpass serves as a link between DLF Phase-1 and Cyber green area. While two people that is the driver and the security guard died, another victim a young woman pilot in a private airline named Suvarna Sripalli Gayatri received severe injuries and was admitted to a private hospital. A resident of Sector-61 at Golf Course Extension road, Suvarna was going to Indira Gandhi International Airport to report for duty when she along with other employees met with the accident.