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INDIA HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT 2005 Delhi<br />
police managed to intercept him. He was<br />
taken to the police station, where he was<br />
allegedly beaten up again. Police allegedly<br />
booked Tinku and his brother in a false<br />
Excise Act case and showed recovery of 13<br />
bottles of liquor. On medical examination<br />
of Tinku by doctors at Lok Nayak Hospital,<br />
it was found that there was a severe vision<br />
problem in his right eye. Tinku also had<br />
head injuries. 22 In response to a complaint<br />
by Tinku, a vigilance inquiry was ordered<br />
by East district Deputy Commissioner of<br />
Police but the police allegedly refused to<br />
register a case against their officers. 23<br />
On 14 May 2004, two-factory workers<br />
Vishwanathan and Bodhan were arrested by<br />
the Jehangirpuri Police Station in North<br />
Delhi in connection with the rape of a fiveyear-old<br />
girl in the Kondli area under<br />
Jehanghirpuri police station limits. Both of<br />
them were kept in police custody <strong>for</strong> some<br />
time, and let off later after sustained<br />
interrogation. On 4 June 2004, the police<br />
allegedly nabbed Vishwanathan again and<br />
interrogated him <strong>for</strong> the second time.<br />
During the interrogation, a Sub-Inspector,<br />
one Assistant Sub-Inspector and two<br />
Constables started beating him. He was<br />
<strong>report</strong>edly first hanged upside down and<br />
then rolled down. When he fell<br />
unconscious, the police officials thought of<br />
sending him to some Government hospital.<br />
But owing to the fear of being exposed,<br />
they <strong>final</strong>ly decided to take him to a private<br />
nursing home, Saroj Hospital on 5 June<br />
2004 under a changed name. 24<br />
On 26 May 2004, Mahesh Sharma, a<br />
polish factory owner of Anand Parbhat<br />
56<br />
area of West Delhi, was allegedly stopped<br />
by police at the picket carrying out<br />
checking in the area. Following an<br />
argument between Sharma and a constable<br />
Shyam Vir Tyagi, Sharma was beaten up<br />
by the policemen. 25<br />
On 9 July 2004, Anoop Singh, an<br />
Assistant Sub-Inspector of the traffic<br />
department of Delhi Police shot at driver<br />
Surinder Singh <strong>for</strong> allegedly refusing to<br />
pay bribes. Although Anoop Singh was<br />
suspended and incarcerated <strong>for</strong> a month<br />
and a half be<strong>for</strong>e his bail, he had allegedly<br />
been threatening Surinder <strong>for</strong> filing a writ<br />
petition seeking compensation <strong>for</strong> his<br />
injuries. 26<br />
In August 2004, a 16-year-old street<br />
boy alleged that he was <strong>for</strong>ced to indulge<br />
in “oral sex” with another 12-year-old as<br />
“punishment” by some policemen of New<br />
Friends Colony Police station. The victim<br />
alleged that another associate of his was<br />
sodomised. Taking cognizance of the<br />
allegations by the victims, the Delhi Police<br />
<strong>report</strong>edly charged one of its officials,<br />
constable Sambhu with sodomy under<br />
section 377 of Indian Penal Code and<br />
suspended him. 27<br />
On 5 September 2004, a Railway<br />
Protection Force (RPF) constable<br />
<strong>report</strong>edly addressed as Cobra allegedly<br />
beaten up a 12-year-old boy Sabir at the<br />
Nizamuddin railway station. Cobra<br />
allegedly took off Sabir’s clothes and<br />
beaten him up with the belt. 28<br />
On 7 September 2004, a brick hit a 16year-old<br />
Jeetu during a quarrel amongst<br />
children while playing in a park near