A murder case has been registered against a police officer of Sundargarh allegedly for beating a youth to death at the Hatirbari police station of Sundargarh. Birmitrapur MlA George Tirkey demanded immediate arrest of the accused police personnel.
According to sources, former Hatibari OIC Sub Inspector Pragyan Pritam Jena had detained Jagmohan Badaik(35) of Purunapani Tiskor Teherdih village under Hatibri police station on November 8 last. Beaten severely there, Jagmohan had become severely critical. On this, SI Jena dumped Jagmohan at Pahantoli. The locals who saw the police assault on Jagmohan did not dare to protest.
On being informed, the family members of Jagmohan had rescued him and rushed him to the Hatibari Community Health Centre. The doctors there had advised to take Jagmohan to the Rourkela Government Hospital (RGH) due to his critical condition. Jagmohan was shifted to the RGH but when his health condition deteriorated further, he was shifted to a nursing home, then to the Ispat General Hospital (IGH) and later to the VSS MCH Burla. On November11, Jagmohan died there. However, the family members kept the body of Jagmohan in front of Hatibari police station demanding action against OIC Jena, besides suitable compensation.
The then Birmitrapur SDPO RK That had intervened and as per the demand of family members of deceased Jagmohan, the SDPO had assured to give job to a family member and Rs 51,000 compensation to the family which it had incurred during Jagamohan’s treatment. But later, the family members did not get any job or compensation as promised.
Meanwhile, Jagmohan’s wife Suka as a complainant sent a registered post letter to Hatibari police station addressing to OIC alleging that his husband was beaten to death by OIC PP Jena. After getting the registered post letter, Hatibari police station brought this to the notice of Sundargarh SP Nikhil Kanodia and as per the direction of the SP, a murder case was registered against OIC Jena on December 26.
Thereafter, Jena was transferred to Sundargarh police headquarters. The Birmitrapur police are now investigating the case.
On Friday, Birmitrapur MlA addressing a Press meet at Rourkela demanded that OIC Jena be arrested soon and Rs 20 lakh compensation be given to his bereaved family.