The Hindu
MANGALORE, Mar 21: Superintendent of Police A.S. Rao told The Hindu on Friday that a fresh case of human rights violation committed by Ullal police sub-inspector Shivaprakash had been brought to his notice. In this case, the victim was 19-year-old final-year B.Com student.
According to the victim’s family members, who did not wish to be identified, the student was allegedly dragged to the Ullal Police Station and tortured for several hours by Shivaprakash, two weeks ago. The boy’s crime was that he was over-speeding on a motorcycle. A member of the victim’s family told The Hindu on Friday his family did not want to make this a big issue. The senior officers had received a complaint. “We hope justice will be served,” he said.
Earlier, tension prevailed at Ullal after Mr. Shivaprakash allegedly beat a 10-year-old boy, Shahal Ibrahim, on Wednesday for allegedly riding a bicycle carelessly.
Rao said that he had assigned the investigation to Additional Superintendent of Police R. Dileep. “The investigation is expected to go into all details connected with the case in the next two or three days as Dileep is indisposed,” he said.
Ibrahim, who was hospitalised after being beaten by the SI, could not attend his annual examinations on Thursday and Friday. “We are requesting his school officials to allow him to write his examinations later,” said Ibrahim’s father U.M. Rafique.
The boy continues to be in pain and still has bruises on his thigh.
Since being allegedly beaten by the police, he had started taking a circuitous route, avoiding the Ullal Police Station, to go out of his colony, he said.
Following this incident, Ibrahim’s six-year-old cousin Bibi Fathima said she would never ride a bicycle on the road.