Teen’s murder: Tura cop suspended

TURA: The West Garo Hills superintendent of police has placed on suspension Sub-Inspector Laxman Chetri following a preliminary report which indicted him of allegedly manhandling one among three teens rescued from a brawl at Rishipara locality, last week.
Close to midnight of October 13, three boys who ventured into Rishipara locality were beaten up after they allegedly made an attempt to ferment trouble.
Local residents claim they were looking for marijuana when a scuffle broke out.
The three boys were rescued by a police team which took them to the station and later the hospital for medical review.
Unfortunately, one of them died a day later in hospital from complications.
One of the detained teenagers had alleged that he was assaulted by the police officer during their detention at the police station, the same night.
The allegation was that the SI had physically assaulted the teenager after they were rescued and brought back from Rishipara locality. The SI is accused of kicking the rescued youths on their groin.
There are also allegations that the officer failed to initiate measure to hand over the teenagers to their parents and kept them at the police station for the entire night after medical examination was done at Tura civil hospital.
Following the allegations, the district SP Mukesh Kr Singh had ordered a departmental inquiry into the alleged incident.
The report of the probe undertaken by additional SP Vivekananda Singh was handed over to the SP on Wednesday afternoon.
“The preliminary report was received this afternoon and based on it the officer was placed under suspension and a departmental inquiry has also been ordered,” stated Mukesh Singh.
The departmental probe will be going into the minute details of the incident which took place on the night of October 13.