Orissa - People's watch

FF Code: : EU/OR/KHURDA /155/2008
Victim(s): : Basanti Pattnaik
Perpetrator(s): : Sachidananda Ratha, Officer-in-Charge,
Chandaka PS
Location: : Chandaka PS
Date of incident: : 9 April 2008
Case details:
The victim Smt. Basanti Pattnaik (55) was married to Mangu Pattnaik and they were residents of
Adharma, Khurda. Basanti was a housewife and Mangu was a farmer and their family was poor.
On 9 April 2008 Basanti’s brother-in-law’s sons Ajay Naik and Avoy Naik entered in to her house and
attacked her and Mangu. At about 10 AM on the same day, she went to Chandaka Police station to lodge
an FIR about this attack. She waited at the police station from 10 AM to 4 PM. The Officer-in-Charge
(OIC) of the police station finally said that he would consider receiving her F.I.R. So on 10 and 11 April
she frequently went to the police station to get the F.I.R filed, but each time the OIC refused and sent her
home. Even though she had been beaten by the accused so that her body was obviously injured, the
OIC did not make her undergo medical examination.
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On 22 April 2008, the OIC called the accused to the police station and he made an agreement with them.
At 11 PM on the same day, Ajay Naik and Avoy Naik entered into Basanti’s house and attacked her and
her husband while they were sleeping. They repeatedly threatened to kill them because Basanti had
lodged an FIR against them.
On the next day 26 April 2008, when Mangu went to Chandaka Police station to lodge an F.I.R. about the
attack, the OIC insulted him before registering the F.I.R.
After four days, the OIC had not taken any action on the matter. On the opposite, Ajay and Avoy told
Basanti and Mangu that they had paid the OIC so that was on their side and that he would accept
everything they did.
On 26 April 2008, Basanti went to People’s Watch to get help. She met with Additional Dep. BNGURU
and told everything about the case. The BNGURU immediately called the police station and advised
them to accept the FIR.
Annual Report on Torture
2008