Odisha Human Rights Commission and State
Information Commission directed to Inspector General of Police, Central
Range, Cuttack for enquiry into
allegation made by Bhakti Ranjan Palai,
RTI Activist about false and fabricated case registered against him by Inspector In-charge,
Krustanprasad Police Station, Puri
illegal arrest, misbehavior, merciless beaten up during arrest in the office of
SP, Puri
Dear friends
On complaint
filed by Bhakti Charan Palai, RTI
Activist and Member of Odisha Soochana Adhikar Abhijan under section 18 of the RTI Act, Odisha Information
Commission immediately registering the
case Complaint Case No. 692/2018 dt.2.5.18
issued notice to Inspector In-charge, Krustanprasad Police
station AND SP, Puri seeking report about allegation of false case
filed by police against Sri Palai and harassing him
for use of RTI extensively to expose
corruption in Block office and Police station.
Similarly, acting
on complaint filed by Sri Palai, Odisha Human Rights Commission registered the
case No. 1747/18 dt.11.5.18 and directed Inspector General of Police, Central
Range, Cuttack for inquiry into the matter and submit the report within one
month.
Sri Bhakti
Palai has alleged that he was informed by his family members and friends about a
cases registered against him in
Krustanprasad police station on 24.1.18. In the FIR filed by Golakh Bihari
Rout, Sub-Inspector of Krustanprasad Police station that under his leadership,
1000 supporters entered into Krustanprasad police station and created ruckus inside police station,
ransacked various important assets and
damaged other valuable assets etc. Another FIR was also lodged against me to
attempt rape a lady police constable in the police station.
In fact on
that day, he was not present in the area
and no way involved in mobilizing
the people to ransack the police station of Krustanprasad. He was in Bhubaneswar and taking his class in
the Tutorial.
Registering
this false FIR, the police started investigation and tried to arrest him. On
dated 3.2.2018 midnight, around 20 police entered his home to search him. They
broke down doors of our house and home appliances worth lakhs of rupees. They
used insalubrious and filthy language to his mother, misbehaved her and
threatened his old father to kill him. Due to this midnight operation by police
and being mentally shocked by police torture, his parents are suffering from
mental trauma and their health condition
deteriorating.
He has
further alleged that as he has been
filling number of RTI
Applications to the office of BDO,
Tahasildar and Krustanprasad police
station in his effort
to expose corruption,
illegalities and irregularities in implementation of Govt. scheme and
programme, the administration, police and political
touts joined hand together to defame , denigrade and harass him. So that
he would refrain from filling RTI
Applications. The police implicating him in false case
and masterminded to lodge
FIR is
the result of administrative
conspiracy to disturb and discourage
him and put him in trouble.
While
Bhakti had been to Office of SP, Puri on 10.4.18 to attend hearing of first appeal filed to SP under section 19 (1) of the RTI
Act against denial of information by the PIO-cum-IIC, Krustanprasad Police
station, Dillip Swain, IIC,
Krustanprasad police station reached in the office of SP, Puri and identified
him sitting there. Having seen him, he
started to talk with him in high tone
and told him about pending warrant case against him. He strongly reacted and objected it. Then, he
met SP and discussed with him. After being come out, he called his co-police
officers to arrest him and started abusing
him with slang language (HAIRE SHALA
BESI PHUTANI MARUCHHU, CHORA SALA etc.).
he along with 4 police officers started beating him and ousted
him from SP office and carried him to Town police station. On that day, the
police arrested him and forwarded him to jail.
They also took away my files, RTI
Application, appeal petition, my mobile and purse containing Rs. 5000.00. The SP, Puri is quite aware about
this incident and encouraged the IIC, Krustanparasad to arrest him against who I had field first
appeal petition. The FAA neither heard the case nor disposed it. He spent 12 days in jail and got released on
24.4.18.
Pradip Pradhan
M-9937843482
Date- 17.5.18
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