From Our Correspondent
TURA: The Medical Officer in-charge of Chokpot PHC has strongly denied the allegation leveled by the police that he was in an inebriated state, and has accused the police of concocting false stories to further defame and humiliate him.
Stating that he was not in an inebriated state as claimed by the police, Dr Walesha N Sangma said people who had witnessed the humiliating treatment meted out on him by the police constables on September 25 at Chokpot will verify his statement.
“I had repeatedly requested the police personnel that I will go the police station willingly if I had committed any wrong. Instead the police assaulted me,” Dr Sangma said.
Speaking candidly to The Shillong Times, Dr Sangma said, despite the fact that he was willing to go to the police station, the constables assaulted him and even hit his head with a log resulting in a depression of the skull for which the surgeon at the Tura Civil Hospital has asked him to undergo a CT scan at the earliest.
Dr Sangma alleged that the police dragged him to the auditorium, tied his hands behind, kicked him and later dragged him to the police station in full public view but he was not arrested.
Later on, after Dr Sangma was released, the Officer in charge of Chokpot Police Station sent a requisition to the Medical Officer on duty to examine him.
“The Medical Officer informed me over phone about the requisition and I came willingly from my quarter and later submitted the report to the Police. This report alone will determine whether I was in an inebriated state or not and whether I had sustained any injuries or not following the assault,” he said.
Accusing the police of fabricating the story with the sole purpose of further humiliating him, Dr Sangma questioned how a confidential medical report had been made public by the police.