Another police atrocity incident surfaces in state

According to the records of the J P Road police station,a 40-year-old woman on May 18 had filed a complaint against two unknown persons who,posing as police officers,stole three of her gold bangles worth Rs 24,000.

Later,the Vadodara DCB and SOG arrested Altaf Patel (30),a resident of Manubar village,and Rehmat Dawood Makken (35),a resident of Paguthan village in Bharuch taluka,in this connection,said the Vadodara police. “The police arrested the duo on the basis of a sketch,” said Inspector C B Chudasama from the J P Road police station.

However,Jamil Patel and Ibrahim Dudhwalla,the counsels of the accused have contradicted the police allegations.

Patel said the wives of both the arrested persons have filed a missing complaint with the Bharuch ‘B’ division police station. As per an FIR filed by Zaheeda,Makken’s wife,her husband was called by some plain-clothes men. “She has stated that her husband went missing on September 25,” said Patel.

Bharuch Local Crime Branch Inspector Dilip Agrawat,said he had no idea about the arrests made by the Vadodara police.

Meanwhile,Patel in his application has said that both the accused were brought to Vadodara and taken to police stations on September 26.

“The accused were brutally beaten up and given electric shock on their private parts at the Navapura and JP Road police stations. One Sub-Inspector,Parmar (his full name could not be confirmed as the J P Road police denied any officer posted there by this name) and two constables,Pradip and Sandeep,are the ones who resorted to torture on the duo,” said Patel.

The J P Road police officials on Thursday had produced both the accused before a Sessions Court. “However,the court had rejected the police remand after we submitted the copies of the FIRs along with the copy of our application. My client is in judicial custody after both were taken to the SSG Hospital,” added Patel.

Assistant Commissioner of Police A C Pancholi,who was in-charge of the operation as per the DCB officers,said the case is with the J P Road police and declined to comment on the arrests.