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member. The BJD party men were angry with Bhakta and were trying to involve him in a fake case.
During this time, a gang of dacoits were caught hold at Puri who were planning to abduct an owner of
Yatra Party of Jagatsinghpur. Bhakta was also involved in this matter and arrested on 22 nd January
2008. He was taken to various police stations and subjected to brutal torture particularly at Biridi Police
Station. He was left to starve. The victim sustained grievous injuries.
FF Code : EU/OR/JSP /33/2008
Victim(s) : Gayadhara Ghadei
Perpetrator(s) : Ajit Kumar Mukherji, OIC
Location : Sampur
Date of incident : 11/01/2008
Case Details:
Victim Gayadhara Ghadei belongs to the Khandayat Community, and maintains his family by working
as a daily wage labourer. His daughter Dipti Ghadei is a student of Purohitpur High School. While going
to school she was often harassed by Kapila Mallick, who threw condoms on her and offered love letters.
The victim and his wife went to lodge a complaint at the police station regarding this, but the OIC abused
them and refused to accept the FIR. On 11 th January 2008 police arrested Gayadhara and detained him
the whole day, following which he was send to the jail after subjecting him to torture, and abusing him with
filthy words at the police station.
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FF Code : EU/OR/JSP /34/2008
Victim(s) : 1) (Late) Sarat Bhuyan 2) Kanakalata Bhuyan
Perpetrator(s) : 1) Duryodhan Bala, OIC 2) Pradeep Lenka, PC
Location : Chakradharpur Out Post, Jagatsinghpur
Date of incident : 05/05/2007, 31/12/2007
Case Details:
Victim Kanakalata Bhuyan, W/o (late) Sarat Bhuyan is a resident of Paradeep. The couple had
migrated to this area from Jajpur seeking employment. The neighbor of the victim was in jail convicted
in a case; and hence the victims were residing in his house. The person responsible for the imprisonment
of Kanakalata’s neighbor induced the police to arrest Sarat also, owing to which the police of
Chakradharpur Out Post arrested the victim’s husband on 5 th May 2007. He was dragged all the way
to the police station by the above mentioned perpetrators and beaten on both his legs. A lathi was
inserted into his mouth, the result of which his mouth and tongue were injured. No treatment was
administered to him and the OIC didn’t allow Kanakalata to talk with her husband either. After detaining
him two days in the station Sarat was produced before the Court, following which he was remanded.
Both his knees were severely injured. Though he returned from the jail of late, Sarat passed away on
31 st December 2007.
Annual Report on Torture
2008