8 cops suspended for beating man to death

Eight policemen were suspended for allegedly beating a 50-year-old man to death after he reportedly attacked a constable with a knife in Karnataka’s Kodagu district, police said yesterday.

“Eight policemen, including 2 head constables and 6 constables of Virajpet police station, have been suspended after the victim Roy D’Souza’s mother filed a complaint that her elder son was beaten to death for refusing to surrender after attacking beat policeman Sangmesh Shivapura with a knife on June 8,” Inspector General of Police, Southern Range, Praveen Madhukar Pawar told IANS.

The case was transferred on June 12 to the CID for probe, as per the National Human Rights Commission guidelines.