Chennai: The daughter of a woman hotel worker has moved the Madras High Court seeking action against seven police personnel who allegedly subjected her mother to third degree torture after her recent arrest in a murder case in Coimbatore district.
The petitioner also wanted a judicial inquiry into the “custodial rape” and “violence” committed on her mother and videographing of medical examination and medical treatment of her mother now under judicial custody since her arrest on August 14.
Passing orders on the petition, Justice V Ramasubramanian said since serious allegations had been made in the affidavit to the effect that the petitioner’s mother was physically tortured, assaulted and subjected to worst form of treatment by police who even inserted lathi into her private parts, there will be an interim direction for medical examination.
He asked the Coimbatore District Judge to arrange for medical examination of the woman in a government hospital and file a report in the high court by September 3.
If she required medical treatment for injuries, if any, suffered in custody, the district judge should make arrangements for her treatment in a fairly reasonable and good hospital, Justice Ramasubramanian said.
The petitioner, living in Madurai District with her husband and sick father, submitted that her mother, employed in a hotel in Udumalpet and earning Rs 200 a day, was arrested in connection with the August 10 murder of her houseowner Leelavathy. (PTI)
