CHANDIGARH: In yet another instance of torture and misuse of authority by the police the midnight kidnapping and the subsequent torture of Gulzar Singh 32 a bank employee by Chandigarh Police personnel has culminated in the victim being hospitalized.
On June 27 Gulzar was watching World Cup soccer at his residence in village Burail. Around midnight four persons including a uniformed sub-inspector of the Chandigarh Police arrived in a private Maruti Gypsy. A small boy accompanying them was asked to identify Gulzar.
The SI decreed that a camera Stolen by the boy had been sold to Gulzar for a sum of Rs 250. Gulzar’s relatives and neighbors sought to intervene and assured the police personnel that he would be produced in the police station the next morning. However the SI brushed away the request.
They forcibly took away Gulzar and began beating him on way to a vacant house in Mohali. He was allegedly tortured by two police personnel and two other men in civil clothes He was asked to return the camera which he claimed that he did not possess. Ultimately Gulzar fell unconscious and was found in that state near his house at Burail village early on Tuesday.
Gulzar who is now admitted to the General Hospital said that the police personnel and those accompanying him were in an inebriated State. He said he feared another attack on him.
Meanwhile the SI identified as Hardip Singh of police station Sector 39 has been sent to Police Lines. A police spokesman said that the medical report was awaited and action would be taken against Hardit if he was found guilty.
His colleagues at the bank are also backing him saying that his credentials are above board and that he would not get involved in any kind of underhand dealing. They believe that the persons accompanying the police personnel may have had some score to settle with Gulzar.
Article extracted from this publication >> July 1, 1994
