A law student from Nadial has complained to West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and Kolkata police commissioner Ranjit Kumar Pachnanda against officer-in-charge (OC) of Nadial police station Ashique Ahmed after he and his elder brother were thrashed by the cops at the police station and forced to spend the night in lock-up on his orders.
On September 17, Sheikh Sultan Ali, 24, the law student from Nadial, had gone to the police station to lodge a general diary (GD) against his relative over a long-standing land dispute. But the police refused to take his GD arguing that they were merely following the OC’s order, he claimed. After a prolong wait, Sultan returned home. Later he obtained a prohibitory order under Section 144 from the court.
On September 26, the youth, along with the court order, went to meet Mr Ahmed at the police station. His elder brother Deyan Ali accompanied him. The meeting soon turned violent. Sultan who was carrying his cellphone in his pocket, however, recorded the entire episode in it. “Do you know me? I am Ashique Ahmed. I will destroy your life and take action against you,” Mr Ahmed reportedly told Sultan. The recording also contains the sounds of the thrashing of Sultan and Deyan by the police officers on the orders of the OC who also asked the officers to throw the brothers in lock-up. After 2 am on September 27, the police took them out from lock-up and drove to Garden Reach State General Hospital for medical test. When the duo told the doctors that their injuries were due to assault by the police, “the cops forced us to take back the complaints,” Sultan alleged.
Denying the order of assault and forceful detention in lock-up, Mr Ahmed claimed that he had lost his temper after Sultan accused him of taking bribe.