Directive follows a criminal’s complaint against High Grounds police.
Instead of using the velvet glove to reform anti-social elements and bring them into the mainstream, some police officials are using an iron fist. This should change, according to state police head Shankar M Bidari.
In a letter, he advised deputy commissioner of police (central division) Dr G Ramesh to deal with habitual offenders without prejudice.
The letter, a copy of which is in possession of DNA, was sent to the DCP following a petition by a criminal to Bidri alleging that he was harassed by the jurisdictional police unnecessarily.
Somashekara Gowda, 40, of Rajajinagar 6th Block, a complained to police commissioner BG Jyothiprakash Mirji and state DG & IGP Shankar M Bidari about alleged harassment he suffered at the hands of the High Grounds
police.
Bidari directed Ramesh not to harass Gowda. “Please instruct the police inspector, High Grounds polices station, not to act with prejudice regarding any issue mentioned in the petition. He should act impartially and without prejudice against the petitioner or anybody. No unnecessary harassment should be caused to anyone,” the letter said.
Gowda complained to Mirji and Bidari alleging that some police officers implicated him in false criminal cases and opened a rowdy-sheet in his name at police station.
The cases were registered in Chandra Layout, JB Nagar, High Grounds and Koramangala police stations.
Gowda approached the high court, seeking its directions to the police to delete his name from the rowdy-sheet since most of the cases pending against him had been disproved.
High Grounds police visited his house on December 29, 2011, when he was at his in-laws’ house. But Gowda went to the station after getting a call from them that they had visited his home.
Gowda went to the station where they allegedly verbally abused him for approaching the high court to get his name
removed from the rowdy-sheet.
“The inspector and sub-inspector threatened me and forced me to execute undertakings as per their instructions,” Gowda said.
He alleged that a police team later rushed to his house and damaged its windowpanes under the guise of searching the place.
“They threatened to kill me in an ‘encounter’ as my name was in the rowdy-sheet,” Gowda said. He said police forced him to withdraw his petition against Lokeshwar, the then High Grounds police inspector who is now attached with Upparpet police station.
According to him, the harassment continued even after he filed a complaint with Mirji on December 31, 2011. He then filed a second complaint with Mirji and Bidari on January alleging that the police continued to harass him on eve of New Year and also on Jan 15. Help came finally after Gowda sought Bidari’s
intervention.
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