The accused in the rape and murder of a minor in Kurla, Mohammed Javed Shaikh, has alleged that the Nehru Nagar police tortured him in order to extract a confession from him.
His lawyer, Amin Solkar, on Wednesday, made an application before the Vikhroli metropolitanmagistrate court based on Shaikh’s meeting with his mother.
“Shaikh was not brought to court on Wednesday. But, when the judge asked him about the allegations made in the application, he repeated the same via video-conferencing,” Solkar said.
Shaikh, 19, allegedly abducted the minor girl on June 6, raped her and then murdered her. Her body was found on June 18 in a locked shanty at Vatsalatai Nagar.
Shaikh alleged that when he was in police custody after July 1, the first six days he was not allowed to sleep and was flogged with a belt on his palms and soles by the police. When he refused to confess, the police allegedly tried to scare him by firing three bullets in the air. “The police told him that they would encounter him,” said Solkar.
Solkar said that the police even injected something into Shaikh’s neck that causednumbness. “He was forced to say whatever the police ordered him to in front of the camera. He even signed on blank papers,” Solkar alleged.
The police also scared Shaikh that they would book him in the other two rape cases if he did not co-operate with them. Solkar alleged that even after Shaikh was sent to judicial custody on July 14, he was dragged to Thane jail.
“The magistrate has ordered the superintendent of jail to file a reply by July 31,” Solkar said.
The police denied all allegations. “We had conducting medical examinations every 48 hours and we have reports of the same made by the government medical officer. Allegations made by Shaikh are baseless,” said Dilip Sawant, deputy commissioner of police, zone 6.
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