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The Odisha Police has suspended five cops including the Inspector In Charge (IIC) of Bharatpur police station on charges of gross misconduct.
According to a notification issued by the Odisha Police, the five suspended police are IIC Dinakrushna Mishra, SI Baisalini Panda, ASI Salilamayee Sahoo, ASI Sagarika Rath and Constable Balaram Handa.
“During the period the order remains in force, they will remain under the disciplinary control of Commissioner of Police,
Bhubaneswar-Cuttack, Bhubaneswar and draw SA and DA admissible under Rule 90 of Odisha Service Code,” the notification read.
Earlier yesterday, Bharatpur police station IIC and two other cops were transferred by the Commissionerate Police to facilitate a fair investigation into the allegation of ‘assault and arrest’ of an Indian Army officer of Sikh Regiment Major Gurvansh Singh and his fiancé at the police station.
According to a notification issued by the Commissionerate Police, Bharatpur police station IIC Dinakrushna Mishra has been transferred and posted to the office of DCP, Bhubaneswar.
Similarly, Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI) Salilamayee Sahoo of Bharatpur police station has been transferred and posted to the office of DCP, Bhubaneswar while constable Balaram Hansda has been transferred and posted to RO Bhubaneswar.
The move from the Commissionerate Police came after Director General of Police (DGP) YB Khurania ordered a Crime Branch probe into the allegations.
It has been alleged that Major Singh and his girlfriend were brutally assaulted by on-duty cops at Bharatpur police station who they approached to register a complaint of road rage.
Meanwhile, the Indian Army has taken up the matter seriously.
As per the allegation, the Army Major and his girlfriend were travelling in a car when they were obstructed and misbehaved by some miscreants. When the victims visited Bharatpur police station, they were misbehaved and brutally assaulted by the cops instead of registering the complaint.
The Major was allegedly kept in the lockup and when his girlfriend voiced her protest, she was also brutally assaulted by the police. Even Bharatpur police station IIC allegedly threatened to rape her.
After coming to know about the development, Army intervened and subsequently, the Major was released and medical checkup of his girlfriend was conducted. As per the medical checkup report at Sum Hospital, the woman has been brutally assaulted.
A five-member team of the Crime Branch led by DSP Narendra Kumar Behera learnt to have quizzed the Bharatpur police station staff for four hours. However, the team had to return empty-handed as there was no CCTV camera installed in the police station and the IIC was absent.
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