Police extortion

We conducted our fact finding over an incident of police torture on the victim Mr. Hadiul Seikh, District-Murshidabad, from religious minority. The victim’s plight started from the day he tried to lodge one complaint over lost of his motor-cycle at Behrampore Police Station. Initially the police refused to accept his complaint with out the supporting papers of his motor-cycle. When he again visited the police station with the relevant papers, the police instead of registering complaint detained him at the police station abusing him in filthy language and even subjected him to physical assault. He was slapped under section 290 of Indian Penal Code. The police reportedly did not provide any food to him while in detention and also did not inform his family of his detention. The police even forcibly took his personal belongings consisting of wrist watch, golden ring, money etc. without issuing any memo. 

Though he got back his motor-cycle and wrist watch from the police station but he was shabbily treated by police on his demand to get back the money and the rest of the articles forcibly seized by the police. 

The victim lodged complaint before the higher police heads of the district against the erring police officers of Behrampore Police Station but he again came under threats from the higher police official for daring to lodge complaint against police.

The perpetrator police personnel by their alleged criminal acts again proved that the common marginalized section have to bear the burnt of their highhandedness and torture by virtue of the impunity enjoyed by them causing corresponding violation of the right to life and equal protection of law of the victims.