The ASI of Choudakulat police outpost was alleged to have forcibly committed an unnatural sex with a Home Guard on Wednesday night inside a room of the outpost while the Home Guard was on duty.
The Pattamundai police on Thursday arrested the accused ASI, who was suspended later by Kendrapada SP Nitinjeet Singh, stated Pattamundai SDPO Kedarnath Sahu.
According to SP Singh, Pravat Patra, a Home Guard, working under Choudakulat police outpost had come for duty. ASI Mahendra Kumar Behera, who on last Monday joined as the in-charge of Choudakulat police outpost, asked Patra to stay at the police outpost in order to accompany him to conduct night patrolling and directed other four Home Guards to go to their duty place in the locality.
later, the Home Guard was told by the ASI to sleep in a room at the outpost. However, while the Home Guard was sleeping, ASI Behera forcibly committed unnatural sex with him by wrongfully restraining and confining him to the room. When the Home Guard protested, Behera lured him on the pretext of giving money and also a permanent job and asked the victim not to disclose the matter.
On Thursday morning, the victim, however, brought the matter to the notice of the IIC of Pattamundai police station by lodging an FIR in this regard. The Pattamundai police later registered a case bearing case under various sections of IPC against the accused. Behera confessed to the crime before the SDPO of Pattamundai.
ASI Behera and the victim Home Guard were sent for medical examination at the Pattamundai CHC. Behera was to be produced before the JMFC Court of Pattamundai.