One has heard of innumerable cases of police torture and brutality in custody, but an instance of a police officer torturing his very own son under his roof in connivance with his current wife certainly caused a jaded and cynical soul like me to sit up and take notice.........
A 15 year old class ten student approached the Sola ( town near Ahmedabad, Gujarat) police personnel on Thursday morning and duly proceeded to file a complaint of physical torture and constant ill-treatment against his father and step mother........
Acting on the complaint filed by the boy (supposed victim), the concerned police officials started verifying the antecedents of both his parents and were rather taken aback when the fact about his father being none other than a sub-inspector attached to another police station in the same area emerged..........
Rather than acting as per the diktats of a pre ordained script and summarily arrest the accused parents, the investigating officer decided to summon the parents of the boy to the said police station and offer them some sage advice about the significance of family and maintaining convivial relations within home and hearth...........
As the victim's father was extremely busy with the dress rehearsals of the fast approaching rath yatra's police bandobast (arrangements), the SHO of the Sola police station summoned the boy's step mother who was named as a repeat offender who beat him at the slightest of pretexts in his complaint.........
According to police sources, the 15 year old boy reached the police station in an autorickshaw and tearfully proceeded to reveal the fact that his step mother constantly beat him up and also that his father did nothing to dissuade her and also joined her in beating him up sometimes.......
In her defence, the step mother said that she had beaten up the boy as he had repeatedly accused her of having an illicit relationship with his father despite the two being legally married and the boy's father who had rushed to the police station on being informed about the police complaint filed against him by a colleague added his two bits saying that he needed to discipline his errant son as he constantly threatened his classmates by saying that his father was a sub-inspector and would fix them if they did not concede to his outlandish demands.....
However, all's well that ends well as both the supposed victim as well as his parents were turned back without an official complaint being filed; but not before the SHO as well as counsellors from a local NGO impressed upon them a few illuminating and much required facts about the importance of family as well as understanding and accommodating each other's point of view as well as perspectives on life instead of constantly squabbling and making a public spectacle of themselves........
Here's wishing the much chastened and hopefully wiser family many years of togetherness, mutual growth, respect and congeniality........
A 15 year old class ten student approached the Sola ( town near Ahmedabad, Gujarat) police personnel on Thursday morning and duly proceeded to file a complaint of physical torture and constant ill-treatment against his father and step mother........
Acting on the complaint filed by the boy (supposed victim), the concerned police officials started verifying the antecedents of both his parents and were rather taken aback when the fact about his father being none other than a sub-inspector attached to another police station in the same area emerged..........
Rather than acting as per the diktats of a pre ordained script and summarily arrest the accused parents, the investigating officer decided to summon the parents of the boy to the said police station and offer them some sage advice about the significance of family and maintaining convivial relations within home and hearth...........
As the victim's father was extremely busy with the dress rehearsals of the fast approaching rath yatra's police bandobast (arrangements), the SHO of the Sola police station summoned the boy's step mother who was named as a repeat offender who beat him at the slightest of pretexts in his complaint.........
According to police sources, the 15 year old boy reached the police station in an autorickshaw and tearfully proceeded to reveal the fact that his step mother constantly beat him up and also that his father did nothing to dissuade her and also joined her in beating him up sometimes.......
In her defence, the step mother said that she had beaten up the boy as he had repeatedly accused her of having an illicit relationship with his father despite the two being legally married and the boy's father who had rushed to the police station on being informed about the police complaint filed against him by a colleague added his two bits saying that he needed to discipline his errant son as he constantly threatened his classmates by saying that his father was a sub-inspector and would fix them if they did not concede to his outlandish demands.....
However, all's well that ends well as both the supposed victim as well as his parents were turned back without an official complaint being filed; but not before the SHO as well as counsellors from a local NGO impressed upon them a few illuminating and much required facts about the importance of family as well as understanding and accommodating each other's point of view as well as perspectives on life instead of constantly squabbling and making a public spectacle of themselves........
Here's wishing the much chastened and hopefully wiser family many years of togetherness, mutual growth, respect and congeniality........
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