SURAT: A magisterial court in Surat has directed the city police department to file a case of attempt to murder against three cops of Umra police station for assaulting a 23-year-old man who ended up in a coma.
The cops had thrashed the man in June this year allegedly for not wearing the mask properly.
The judicial magistrate first class (JMFC) (municipal) on Wednesday passed the order directing the police department to file a case against Nilesh, Dhansukh and one other policeman posted at Umra police station, for beating up one Samir Ansari, a resident of Gulshan park society near Paliya ground.
The order was passed based on a court complaint filed by Samir’s father after a police complaint was not filed against the accused cops. The investigation against the cops will be led by a police officer of the rank of assistant commissioner of police, the court order stated.
According to case details, Samir and his few friends had gone to a coffee shop in Vesu on June 22. When they were leaving, one of the accused cops approached Samir and told him that he was not wearing a mask properly which amounts to violation of Covid-19 norms. The cop asked Samir to come with them to the police station.
Samir requested the cops to let him go, but the cops dragged him to the police van and made him sit on the floor of the vehicle. According to complaint lodged by Samir’s father, while on way to police station, the accused cops kept on thrashing his son on the head.
About 20 minutes after Samir was detained, his friend Lukman got a call from one Nareshbhai, a cop with Umra police saying that Samir had jumped out of the moving police vehicle and got injured. Lukman was asked to come to the New Civil Hospital.
When Samir’s father reached the hospital, the doctors there said that his son was in a coma. The victim’s father approached the police to register a complaint against the cops. But when FIR was not filed, Samir’s father approached the court.
