A STAFF REPORTER
Rahim, the young man asaulted The kiosk where he was beaten up
A young man with one kidney was brutally assaulted by a group of cops for daring to protest when they were raining blows on another youth caught riding a motorcycle without a helmet.Sheikh Rahim, 23, ended up in a nursing home with bruises and severe abdominal pain — he had undergone surgery four years ago to remove a diseased kidney — for standing up for the stranger.
The accountancy student at the Institute of Computer Accountants on Maniktala Main Road had just stepped out of the building around noon on Wednesday when he saw a sergeant and four colleagues hitting the two-wheeler rider in front of a police kiosk.
Several other pedestrians saw the cops slap and strike the man with batons but Rahim decided he wouldn’t be just another silent spectator.
“Apnara oke marchhen keno? Or jodi kono bhul thake apnara aain anujaye or birudhhe byabostha nin (Why are you hitting him? If he is at fault, take action according to the law),” the Rajabazar resident shouted, rushing towards the kiosk.
The slap-happy sergeant, Joyjit Saha, turned around and shot back: “Tor ki re…tui ke? (What’s your problem…who are you?”
Saha and the other policemen then let go of the two-wheeler rider and pounced on Rahim. “I pleaded with them not to hit me and told them that I had undergone kidney surgery, but they wouldn’t listen. The sergeant even pulled out his service revolver and threatened to shoot me,” the youth told Metro.
As Rahim collapsed in pain, fellow students from the institute and the pedestrians who were inert moments earlier ran to his rescue.
But sergeant Saha was not through with teaching the youth a lesson for questioning his “right” to assault a traffic-rule offender. “The policemen tried to drag me into a taxi and probably take me to the police station for another round of beating. Fortunately, students of my institute stepped in,” Rahim recalled.
But according to the joint commissioner of police (headquarters), Jawed Shamim, it was Rahim who was guilty of assaulting an officer rather than the other way round.
“The sergeant and his team had intercepted one Raj Mohan Jha for not wearing a helmet. Jha was not ready to pay the stipulated fine, which prompted the sergeant to take him into the kiosk for questioning. It was then that Rahim stepped in and manhandled the officer along with some other students of the institution,” he said.
Shamim said Jha took advantage of the commotion and sped away on his motorcycle. “The sergeant was injured in the incident. We have registered a case against Rahim for assaulting a police officer on duty,” he added.
A doctor at the nursing home where Rahim was treated confirmed marks of assault on the youth’s body. “We need to monitor whether his kidney has been affected,” he said.
Rahim has lodged a complaint with Phoolbagan police station about unprovoked assault by Saha and his colleagues.
I have been keeping you informed as to what events makes a man a Maoist.
Events as given above is sure to make a man a maoist.
Rahim, an innocent boy, who just protested against the police highhandedness.
The police were beating mercilessly a scooterist who was driving without a helmet.
I have also driven a two wheeler until a few years back.
There are established procedures if a person is caught driving without a helmet. He can be booked and a spot fine imposed on him. If the culprit cannot pay the fine, then he can be taken to the police station and kept there until such time as the fine is paid. Nowhere doe it say that the police can beat him.
The police, by beating him have themselves created a criminal breach and they should be punished for causing injury and violence.
If the government does not take action, you can be sure they have sent two more young men to sympathise with the Maoists.
It is such actions which make the people hate the police and rejoice when they (the police) are killed by Maoists.
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