Kochi: A ‘Good Samaritan’ who saved the life of an injured man was allegedly tortured by the Kalamassery police on Saturday. This comes a day after a Dalit man alleged torture by the Palarivattom police. Selvan, 27, an auto driver and native of Thaikkattukara near Aluva, was returning home on Saturday night after dropping a passenger when he heard someone screaming from the middle of a field at Muttom. He stopped the vehicle and found a man, identified as Sreenivasan, 43, lying there with sharp injuries on his face.
Selvan, along with local residents, took him to the Kalamassery Medical College Hospital and admitted him there. “A policeman on duty at the hospital asked me to come to the Kalamassery police station and the cops there started beating me asking me why I had attacked the man. They won’t buy my version and continued to beat me,” Selvan, who is undergoing treatment at the medical college hospital, said on Tuesday.
His friends who came to know about the incident got Selvan released from the station on Sunday afternoon and admitted him to the hospital. When contacted, Deputy Commissioner of Police Arul R.B. Krishna said he was not aware of the matter. “I’m yet to get any such information,” he said. The Kalamassery police denied the charges and said they only questioned him.
Meanwhile, the State Police Complaints Authority launched a preliminary probe into the alleged custodial torture of a Dalit youth Sooraj, 19, by the Palarivattom police the other day.SPCA chairman K. Narayana Kurup would visit Sooraj, currently undergoing treatment at the Kalamassery Medical College Hospital, on Wednesday.
