Orissa - People's watch

od in the auto point of Jagatsinghpur Bazaar. He escaped from them and wanted to take shelter in the
police station. There the inspector in charge, Ramesh chandra Mohapatra, tore his first information
report and scolded him. Then he beat Bishnu on his shoulder and pushed him to get out of the station.
Now Bishnu is hiding from the police because he fears further torture.
FF Code: : EU/OR/KHURDA/101/2008
Victim(s): : 1) Surya Pattnaik
Perpetrator(s): : 1) Kirti Chawdhuri, ASI Sonepur PS
Location: : Sonepur PS
Date of incident: : 14/03/2008
Case details:
Victim Surya Pattnaik, aged 32, is an inhabitant of Thanapatipara (P.S. Sonepur) and has passed his
Master of Arts at Sonepur University. At the date of incident he was unemployed and searching for a job.
On 14 March 2008 at 7 pm Surya was taken to Sonepur police station when he was at a tea stall. Surya
was completely unaware of the matter the police detained him so he asked Sub-Inspector (SI) Nabaghan
Sethy, who remained silent. Kirti Chawdhuri, Assistant Sub-inspector (ASI), beat 8 times by her stick on
the back and shoulders of Surya, who got to know that he should give evidences about a cycle theft – a
matter completely unknown for Surya. Still not understanding everything Surya asked again about the
case which was again followed by caning.
At 9:30 pm Surya was released and told that whenever he would get some information about the cycle
theft he should come to the police station.
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FF Code
: EU/OR/CTC/110/2008
Victim(s) : Debasis Rout
Perpetrator(s) : Satya Narayan Behera, Inspector-in-Charge,
Location : Chauliaganj PS, Cuttack.
Date of incident : 02/03/2008
Case details;
The victim Debasis Rout (39) regularly went to his friend’s house to supervise the family’s condition.
He did this also on 2 March 2008 when his two friend’s Sri S.K.Rafi and Brundaban were present
there.
At 9 PM Inspector-in-Charge (IIC) Sri Satyananda Behera and Deputy Commissioner of Police Sri
Priyadarshi arrived in a police van and the IIC took Debasis to the police station, where they kept him
in detention for 3 days in reference to a false case.
Annual Report on Torture
2008