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Police blamed for Killi incidents

By Our Staff Reporter

KOCHI OCT. 14. The Torture Prevention Centre, India, an NGO that investigated the Killi incident, has accused the Kattakada police of committing excesses in Killi on October 5.

While denying reports of sexual harassment by the police as reported in a section of the Press, the office-bearers of the Centre, S.D. Singh, Malini Menon and Anjana Madhavan, said they did not receive any evidence or complaints of sexual assault from the women of the area.

Incidentally, the State Government had suspended eight police officials involved in the incident.

They said the police brutally assaulted many men, women and children on the eventful night. The office-bearers said the trauma of the victims was so severe that it could not be compensated.

The police also flouted the rules for effecting arrests at Killi, they said. While stating that the police action was totally ``unwarranted'', they said that the police used abusive language against people, including women and children. The police action also resulted in considerable damage and loss of property, they said.

On the injury suffered by Ajir, the youth who was stopped by a police constable for not wearing the helmet, they said that the exact cause of the injury could not be ascertained, as eyewitnesses could not be contacted.

It was alleged that he suffered injury on his forehead when a police constable hit him with a `lathi'.

The written complaints received by the Centre office-bearers from the victims and the medical report would be forwarded to the State Human Rights Commission, the Chief Minister, the Director General of Police and the National Human Rights Commission.

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