Mangalore, November 16: Allegations of arresting and harassing innocent people including women are coming from Ullal, Bajpe, Suratkal and Kavoor jurisdictional police limits, following the recent untoward incidents under the limits of Mangalore City Police Commissionerate.
According to a media report, police, who have interrogated more than two dozens of people in the past four days, kept a few among them under illegal detention. Family sources said that at least women were also there among the illegally detained persons.
It is learnt that these detentions have been carried out under the supervision of Assistant Commissioner of Police Jaggannath.
Three brutal murders and one murder attempt cases have been registered under the limits of Mangalore city police Commissionerate between November 11 and November 13.
Local people have expressed fear that there has been a systematic effort to give a communal angle to these untoward these incidents, despite the fact that police themselves have claimed that the rivalry between gangs and disputes were the reason behind these crimes.
Bajpe police have identified one Naushad from Farangipet as one of the accused in connection with the murder attempt on Bajrang Dal activist Raveendra, who was stabbed by miscreants near Gurpur Kaikamba last Sunday.
In order to know his whereabouts, police had taken his brother-in-law into custody from his from his home on Monday night.
Family members of Naushad have accused the police of taking his mother and wife into their custody after storming into their house in Krishnapur in the wee hours of Tuesday. According to the family members, these women still did not return after police took them from home.
It is also learnt that the police, who consider the murder attempt on Ravindra as a revenge to the murder of Kabir, who was killed in last February, have taken the friends of Kabir into custody and kept them under illegal detention since last three days. Report claims that apart from Kabir's brother a few persons from Gurpur, Kaikamba and Addoor including Sarfaraz, Jaleel and Mohammed have been taken into police custody.
On November 13, Ullal police had taken two persons belonging to an organisation in to their custody and released after a day-long interrogation. On November 15, the same police had taken five persons from Kinya-Malar area into their custody and released few of them in the evening, it is learnt.
'Police misbehaved with women'
Meanwhile, Sameena, DK district president of Women's Front of India, has accused the Bajpe police of misbehaving with her and fellow members.
“The mother and wife of Nashad are under illegal police detention. When we asked the necessity of arresting innocent women, Bajpe Police Inspector Dinakar Shetty and P P Santosh misbehaved with us and took our photographs forcefully. They also noted down our address”, she said.
“When we reminded the police about the law which prohibits keeping women under their custody after 7:30 pm, Inspector Shetty threatened us saying that he would act according to their wish”, Sameena said.
Denial
While contacted, Bajpe police denied the allegation of illegal detention. “We found out Naushad's house only on Tuesday morning. It is true that we had fetched two women from that house. However, we had allowed them to go home in the evening after collecting information from them”, said Mr Shetty.
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