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FF Code : EU/OR/JSP/98/2008<br />
Victim(s) : Pradeep Behera<br />
Perpetrator(s) : Bichitra Samal Officer-In-Charge,<br />
Location : Earasama police station<br />
Date of incident : 19/02/2007<br />
Case Details:<br />
Victim Pradeep Behera, age 22, member of the scheduled castes, helps his father in cultivation. There<br />
was a theft case in his village. The villagers organized a meeting to find out who was the thief. They asked<br />
the local magician who blamed the theft on Pradeep Behera and another man called Rama Biswal.<br />
When Pradeep said that he had not committed the theft the villagers called the police. The policemen<br />
slapped him on both cheeks and pulled him into the van. There they stroke him with fists. When they<br />
arrived at the police station at 2am they did not give him food. The next day they beat his hands with a<br />
stick. After two nights and one day they released him on bail for Rs 200.<br />
<strong>Orissa</strong><br />
161<br />
FF Code: : EU/OR/KHR/99/2008<br />
Victim(s): : 1) Manju Pradhan<br />
Perpetrator(s): : 1) Rajendra Prasad Behera, Inspector-In-Charge<br />
Location: : Nayapally PS<br />
Date of incident: : 24/03/2008<br />
Case details:<br />
Victim Manju Pradhan, aged 27, member of the Khandayat cast, is a daily laborer and has no<br />
educational qualification. She and her husband Kabi Pradhan, aged 35, live in Nilacharka Nagar (Salia<br />
Sahi; P.S. Nayapally, Dist. Khurda).<br />
On 23 March 2008 at 10.30 pm Manju and her husband went to a shop in Basti, where they were<br />
blamed by the owner for breaking his glass showcase, which was in fact destroyed by himself due to<br />
alcohol abuse. After the shop owner insulted Manju and Kabi, he and his brother-in-law beat Kabi<br />
several times.<br />
On 24 March 2008 at 12 pm Manju went to Nayapally police station to lodge a complaint against the<br />
shopkeeper and his brother-in-law. The inspector in charge (IIC), Rajendra Prasad Behera, aged 45,<br />
did not believe Manju and began to abuse her in a filthy language. When Manju invited Rajendra to visit<br />
the place of crime, the IIC beat on the legs of her and told her to leave the police station.<br />
Shocked by these events Manju went home crying.<br />
Annual Report on Torture<br />
2008
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