Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (SP)

Mangalore, Jan 6: Police sub-inspector (PSI) of Malpe station, Santosh Kumar Shetty, was suspended from service on Wednesday January 5. It may be recalled that after the Bajrang Dal activists had laid siege to Malpe police station on the evening of Tuesday January 4, alleging that the said PSI had tortured one of their activists, the superintendent of police (SP) had promised to suspend him.

It is learnt that when a few boys were sitting with a girl from another community in Bhujanga Park in Ajarkad a few days back, a verbal friction had ensued. Following this, a person named Kishore from Malpe, said to be a Bajrang Dal activist, had informed the police. Reportedly, the policemen then summoned the girl and the boys to the police station, and sent them back after advising them.

On Tuesday, Kishore had come face to face with the same youth in Malpe, where a quarrel broke out between them. The youth then complained to the policemen that Kishore had beaten them up, and posed them death threat. Later, Kishore told the Bajrang Dal activists that the PSI had called him to the police station, where he was tortured. The activists had later protested in front of the police station, and the situation had returned to normalcy after MLA, Raghupati Bhat, and superintendent of police, Pravin Madhukar Pawar, visited the place.