Bareilly: A person in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly on Wednesday (May 26) accused the state police of hammering nails into his hand and foot for not carrying masks and thus violating the COVID-19 curfew. However, the claims has been denied by a senior official who mentioned the accidents have been self-inflicted.
The sufferer, recognized as Ranjit, arrived on the Baradari Police Station alongside along with his mom, with nails drilled in his hand and foot. He accused the police of committing the barberic act towards him for defying the COVID curfew. In his criticism, he alleged that he was blindfolded by the police after which the Uttar Pradesh cops hammered nails on his physique.
He was arrested in 2019 for damaging God’s idol in a temple
However, Bareilly SSP Rohit Singh Sajwan refuted the allegations and termed them baseless. The SSP mentioned the accidents have been self-inflicted to evade arrest in a case registered towards Ranjit at Baradari police station. The police official claimed that the person was beforehand despatched behind the bars for damaging God’s idol at temples in Bareilly. “He did all this drama to save himself from the police. The charges levelled by him were not found to be true in the probe,” Sajwan mentioned.
In 2019, Ranjit was arrested by the police for getting into a temple in an inebriated state and damaging the idols there.
The SSP mentioned an FIR was registered towards Ranjit, a resident of Jogi Navada, on May 24 for misbehaving with a police constable who had requested him to not wander with out a masks in public. The FIR was registered beneath IPC sections 323 (voluntarily inflicting damage), 504 (intentional insult with intention to impress breach of peace), 506 (felony intimidation), 332 (voluntarily inflicting damage to discourage public servant from his obligation), 353 (assault or felony drive to discourage public servant from discharge of his obligation), 188 (disobedience to order obligation promulgated by public servant) and 270 (malignant act more likely to unfold an infection of illness harmful to life).
“The accused was absconding after the incident and police were searching for him,” the SSP mentioned.
