Acting on a complaint filed by Angul-based Human Rights Watch (HRW), the Odisha Human Rights Commission (OHRC) has issued notices to the Balangir district Superintendent of Police (SP) seeking a report within four weeks on police brutality on an arrested person inside the Balangir Town police station on October 17 this year. The commission issued the notice on November 25.
The next hearing of the case will be held on January 16, 2014. Complainant HRW secretary Sangita Swain, basing on a news item published in a daily, alleged that constables and home guards of the Balangir Town police station police personnel had brutally assaulted Sajjan Acharya with their belt and boot. He too was denied medical treatment.