DC impact: Two cops suspended, two others shunted out
Quick action in Chinese master case.
MADURAI: The Madurai City Police Commissioner Shailesh Kumar Yadav on Friday took disciplinary action against four police personnel in a case related to alleged beating up of a hotel ‘Chinese Master’ for asking them to pay their food bill. .
While head constables, Arjunan and Mandhaichami, attached to Koodal Nagar police station were suspended for their direct involvement in the incident, Mr. Yadav transferred the two others, sub-inspector Gunasekaran and head constable Senthil Kumar to Thiruparankundram and Avaniyapuram respectively for assaulting the victim after he was brought to the police station.
The Deccan Chronicle had highlighted the police high-handedness in its July 26 edition with a picture from CCTV footage clips, which revealed the police constables attacking the master Karthik in ‘Kings Hotel’ around 11 pm on Monday night.
The two police constables had visited the hotel around 11 pm. They asked Karthik to pack two ‘parotas and an ‘omlette’, sources said. After handing over the food parcel to the police, Karthik asked them to pay the money. “How dare you can ask us to pay the money,” the bemused policemen told Karthik before allegedly assaulted him.
Even when the hotel owner Somasundaram, informed the head constables that he was a retired policeman himself, they did not listen to him. The constables also allegedly beat up the ‘Chinese Master’ Karthik in front of the members of the public around 11 pm.
Then they took him to the Koodal Nagar police station and kept him under illegal custody till 3 am. Inside the station, sub-inspector Gunasekaran and head constable Senthil Kumar allegedly beat him again for half-an-hour and then forced him to sit there. The police left him only in the wee hours.
Based on the complaint from Karthik, the Madurai police commissioner Mr. Yadav directed the assistant commissioner of police to conduct an inquiry. Based on the report submitted by the AC, the commissioner has with remarkable speed taken this disciplinary action.