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Two suspended on assault charge

By Our Special Correspondent

Praveen Yavagal

HUBLI, SEPT. 19. Two policemen have been suspended and a departmental inquiry has been ordered against them on the charge of beating up Praveen Yavagal, a 24-year-old businessman and a law student in Hubli, who has been admitted to the Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences-Hubli (KIMS) with multiple injuries.

According to reports, Praveen, a nephew of B.R. Yavagal, former Minister, was waiting for a bus on Friday night opposite the old bus stand in Hubli. The two policemen identified as Moosannavar, Assistant Sub Inspector of Police, and Belagavi came to him and questioned him as to what he was doing there. Praveen told them that he was waiting to catch a bus to Bangalore.

It is said that Praveen asked them why he was being questioned and he was immediately beaten up by the two policemen. It is alleged that he was taken in an autorickshaw to the Suburban Police Station.

Beaten up

Praveen said that at the station, the two policemen removed his clothes, chained one of his hands to a window, and started beating him with batons.

This, according to Praveen, went on for about 15 minutes before senior police officials, who were on night rounds, arrived at the scene.

They asked him and the policemen to undergo a medical examination, he said.

Accordingly, he went to KIMS while the policemen who assaulted him did not turn up, he claimed.

`Barbaric'

Mr. Yavagal termed the incident barbaric and inexcusable. He said he would write to the Chief Minister in this regard demanding punishment for the accused.

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