Daijiworld Media Network – Sullia (SP)
Sullia, Dec 29: State director general of police, Shankar Bidari, has handed over the departmental inquiry report relating to alleged atrocities on BJP leaders by the local policemen relating to stone pelting incident on the local police station, to Chief Minister (CM), D V Sadananda Gowda. The report was prepared as per the instructions of the CM.
The CM is presently busy at New Delhi. The BJP leaders here believe that action based on this report may be taken within a couple of days, once the CM returns to the state capital.
Alleging that the policemen had allowed two men and two women from different religions, whom the people had brought to the station after intercepting them while moving in a car, to go Scot free, a mob had pelted stones at the local police station on the night of December 14. The policemen reportedly entered houses of some BJP leaders and activists on the same night, beat up even the women members of their families, and berated them with choicest abuses. The policemen had arrested 17 persons, even by breaking open the front doors with force in some cases. Some of the leaders had alleged that outdated and brutal torture methods had been used against them in the police station.
In the meanwhile, local block Congress president, M Venkappa Gowda, has denied the role of Congressmen in stone pelting incident. Relating to allegations by BJP that Congress activists were involved in the incident, he said that he has allowed these allegations to be judged by the divine. “If we have erred, let the divine punish us. If BJP leaders are lying, let them be punished. We are prepared for everything,” he said, addressing a press conference here on Wednesday December 28.
He accused Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leaders of delivering communally inflammatory addresses in the town, because of which some of the activists had threatened Congress leaders, P A Mohammed, and Samshuddin. He urged the policemen to register a suo moto case in trhis incident and arrest the culprits involved.
The press conference was attended by leaders, P S Gangadhar, Sudhir Rai Menala, Dr Raghu, Dinesh Ambegallu, and others.