A research scholar from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur was heckled, harassed and badly beaten up inside a police station in Murshidabad district where the victim had gone to lodge a general diary about his missing bank passbook.
According a complaint filed by Iman Kalyan a PhD scholar at IIT Kharagpur early this week when he went to Domklal Police Station in Murshidaad district to register a general diary regarding the loss of his bank passbook he was severely beaten up by a Sub Inspector of Police Ujwal Biswas also referred to as Mejo Babu.
“I live at Domkal town and am a research scholar at IIT Kharagpur , when I discovered that my passbook was missing I rushed to the police station in order to get a general diary registered, there the staff told me to get my documents stamped by the bank authorities, when I told that my bank was at Kharagpur IIT where I am a research scholar they refused to receive the GD, subsequently following an argument the Mejo Babu called me to a side room not covered by the CCTV camera, there he not only hurled filthy languages on me but also severely beat me up, later when my parents who rushed to the police station hearing the news were also ill-treated,” Kalyan said adding he got a first aid done from the nearby government hospital and then registered a complaint with the Sub-Divisional Magistrate and the Sub-divisional Police Officer.
“If this is done to an IITian then what treatment a common man gets,” the victim wondered while one of his colleagues said a meritorious person that he was he could easily return being an IPS or WBPS officer in a matter of two years and get the SI to salute him in public. Referring to the incident the both the SDM and the Superintendant of Police assured action. “An inquiry has been ordered and action will be taken if the officer is found guilty,” the senior officials said.
This is the second such incident in a matter of a few months when a retired Inspector General of Police Pankaj Dutta was made to sit inside a Kolkata police station for several hours and humiliated by a sub inspector who lifted his legs on the table in front of him and also blew smoke from a cigarette on his face. Humiliated and hurt Dutta — a diehard critic of the Mamata Banerjee Government and its police force — allegedly went into depression and suffered a severe cerebral stroke a couple of days later and died at Varanasi. He had played a frontal role in the movement following the brutal rape and murder of a lady doctor inside the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital last year.
