Hyderabad: The Hyderabad High Court on Tuesday noticed variations in the two reports submitted by the doctors of Sircilla area hospital and the medical officers of Karimnagar prison with regard to the injuries to the victims of alleged police torture.
A division bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Ramesh Ranganathan and Justice J. Uma Devi was dealing with a PIL by Gaddam Lakshman, president of civil liberties committee seeking either CBI or SIT probe into the brutal torture of eight persons belonging to dalit and BC communities, allegedly by the police in Nerella village of Sircilla district.
The bench pointed out that all the victims received injuries at the same place (genitals) in the incident and that there were variations in the two reports.
The bench directed Telangana state advocate general D. Prakash Reddy to submit a report comparing the two reports on the injuries to the victims. The bench perused the two reports and asked the A-G how all the victims received injuries at the same place.
The A-G said that the victims were beaten up by one sub-inspector as part of interrogation. The S-I was suspended as he crossed the norms, the A-G said, admitting to some variations between the two reports.
V. Raghunath, counsel for the petitioner, told the court that the police not only beat up the victims but also gave them electric shocks. The bench posted the case to after one week.
