Allowed the young man to be beaten in the police station, two policemen suspended
Mahasamund. The police have arrested the accused who opened the handcuffs of a youth accused of theft from inside the Pithora police station. The victim had lodged a case with his mother at the Pithora police station. After which the police arrested both the accused Sunny Sardar and Rahul Singh from Bilaspur. Police seized the car of the accused and took action against both of them under the SCST Act. In this case, the Superintendent of Police has already suspended two constables who were negligent.
On July 1, both the accused thrashed the victim youth over a matter of mutual exchange of money. After this, the youth was brought to the police station and got a case of bike theft registered against him and got handcuffed and thrashed by his own fellow policemen. After this, the accused Untied the handcuffs of the young man from the police station, made him sit in his car and brought him to Raigarh. During this, the accused thrashed the young man with kicks and bribes. He also made a video of it and posted it on his social media account and made it viral.
If the victim’s youth is to be believed, during this time the young man was brought to Raigarh near station chowk and beaten up for hours. During this he was insulted with casteist words. After beating, the accused youths handed over the victim youth to the police at City Kotwali Raigarh, where the police released the youth. Now in this case Mahasamund police is taking action against the accused under the SC ST Act with assault. Along with this, policemen posted on duty for negligence in police work, Head Constable Anil Sahu, Gopal Sahu, Shailesh Thakur, Mahasamund Superintendent of Police Dharmendra Singh has been suspended..
