74-yr-old Faizuddin beaten to death in his home by raiding police
Submitted by mumtaz on 13 July 2009 - 10:32pm.
http://www.twocircles.net/2009jul13/74_yr_old_faizuddin_beaten_death_his_home_raiding_police.html
By Waliullah Ahmed Laskar
Guwahati: In a brutal show of police power, the Assam Police mercilessly beat
up Faizuddin Ahmed, an elderly respectable person of village Latakhat under
Dhula police station in Darrang district of Assam, during a raid at his home on
11 July 2009. Ahmed succumbed to the assault and died on the spot.
As done by other co-accused, the 74-year-old man did not go into hiding when a
police team barged into his house at about 10 pm on purportedly in search of
three persons including him accused in a case. The family members of the
deceased state that when they insisted that he should avoid the police and
answer the charge against him in the court he maintained that there was no need
to go into hiding as he was innocent.
The case against him and two other persons was false and filed maliciously
because he tried to intervene in a dispute involving his co-villagers to settle
it amicably, say some local people. One of the parties to the dispute was not
happy with him and they filed a false case against him. It is this case in
connection with which the police raided his house.
According to the sources, the raiding police team demanded ten thousand rupees
from him because he made them to visit his house in the night as there is a
case against him. If there was no case they would not have to toil so much. It
is he who is responsible for accusations against him and he had to pay for it,
the policemen allegedly said. The elderly person pleaded his innocence
repeatedly and told them that if they insist he could only pay them rupees two
thousand. At this offer the men in uniform got infuriated and started to beat
him, sources claim. The aged fragile body could not withstand the brutal
assaults and succumbed at the spot.
According to the reports, the local people assembled at Faizuddin's house and
gheraoed the police team, immediately after the incident. They demanded
exemplary punishment against the guilty police officers.
A case has been registered against the raiding police personnel in Dhula police
station bearing No. 157/2009 and the Superintendent of Police for Darrang
district Imdadul Hussain ordered to arrest the Sub-Inspector who led the erring
team.
The people are shocked at the incident and demanding prompt trial and exemplary
punishment for the ‘killer officers.’
With Regards
Abi
"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
- Voltaire"
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