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