Political parties have criticised the act of the police in Mahoba district of Bundelkhand region, where the cops reportedly torture of a youth inhumanly forcing her to drink urine and also putting petrol in his private parts.BJP and Congress leaders alleged that the incident shows the ‘black picture’ of the state police and of in sensitiveness of the Akhilesh Yadav government. BJP spokesperson Vijay Bahadur Pathak said that such incidents proved the real picture of law and order situation of the state. UP Congress spokesperson, Siddharth Priya Srivastava said that it shows how the UP police acts against the poor and innocent people in the state.
As per the incident, police chowki in-charge, and some policemen first beat up a youth Deependra Kumar Gupta blue and black and then poured petrol in his private parts on Monday. The family of the youth also alleged that he was forced to drink urine when he sought for water. They also alleged that police was forcing the youth to pay Rs one lakh to them and hence they had implicated him in a case. The victim also accused the policemen of forcing him to sign on blank cheques.
DIG( Chitrakoot range) Bhajni lal Meena has ordered a probe into the incident while action has been initiated against the erring policemen of Subhash police chowki. The chowki in-charge Devendra Yadav and constables Gajendra and Deepak were involved in the crime and have been suspended. FIR has been registered against these policemen under section 323 of the IPC and corruption act.
Police superintendent of Mahoba Ram Kishore Verma talking to media persons, however, denied the allegations and said that two medical examinations also did not clarified about pouring of petrol on private parts of the youth. He said that the youth was brought to police station on a complaint that he took loan of Rs 4 lakhs from a jeweller Irfan and was not returning it.