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van came to the place but the police did not try to help the injured neither cleared the road. Instead they<br />

scolded to the gathering people. Behera reported the accident to the arriving policemen but instead of<br />

listening they pulled him into the van forcefully. There they stripped him and beat him. They kept his<br />

<strong>watch</strong>, mobile and goggles and arrested him for two days at the police station where he was tortured both<br />

mentally and physically. Sri Behera was released from the P.S along with his wife, who was also kept<br />

there, at 2pm on 11.3.08.<br />

<strong>Orissa</strong><br />

FF Code<br />

: EU/OR/KHURDA/93/2008<br />

Victim(s) : Vivekananda Patra<br />

Perpetrator(s) : M.D,Askar<br />

Location<br />

: C.Spur PS<br />

Date of incident : 11/03/2008<br />

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Case Details:<br />

Victim Sri Vivekananda Patra, age 36, is working privately as a Project Engineer. He was leading the<br />

contruction of a road near Kali Mandir,Press Chhak. Due to a strike of the civil engineers the construction<br />

process was stopped. The wholes which were dug were protected by the red ribbon and iron pipes but<br />

a doctor from KIMS fell into one of the holes from his motorcycle because he was drunk. A security<br />

guard found his dead body and four days later sub inspector M. D. Askar called Vivekananda to the<br />

police station. There Askar started shouting at Vivkananda and beat him, accusing him of having dug<br />

the hole purposefully to kill the doctor. Vivekananda was kept at the police station from 12.30pm to 5pm<br />

but was refused to use the phone neither he received food or water. When he was forwarded to the court<br />

on 12 th of March 2008 it was decided that the doctor died due to his own carelessness.<br />

FF Code : EU/OR/JSP/96/2008<br />

Victim(s) : Bishu chandra Gochhayat<br />

Perpetrator(s) : Ramesh chandra Mohapatra, Inspector In-charge<br />

Location : Jagatsinghpur PS<br />

Date of incident : 26/02/2008<br />

Annual Report on Torture<br />

2008<br />

Case Details:<br />

Victim Bishnu chandra Gochhayat, age 46, is a rikshaw puller and member of the scheduled castes.<br />

When he was consulting with the advocate Sri Rabi Mohanty about a previous case in the court at<br />

11am on 26.2.08.The police got the news and took him to the police station Bishnu. They reached there<br />

at 12.30pm. The police wanted a compromise the case and attacked Bishnu with an iron

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