Three police personnel, including an Assistant Commissioner, will have to pay a total compensation worth Rs. 6 lakhs to a woman of Adyar here for violation of rights.
Following an order of the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC), the State Government has issued a G.O sanctioning the sum for the victim. It has been requested to the Director-General of Police to recover the sum from the salaries of the Assistant Commissioner, Inspector and a woman Sub-Inspector in equal instalments.
The case pertains to a complaint filed by Lalitha of Kasturba Nagar, Adyar, a senior citizen, that she was unlawfully dispossessed of a flat where she was staying as a tenant in 2008. The police personnel acted in consent with the flat owner.
In the counter opinion, the then Assistant Commissioner Jagarbarsali stated that it was not correct to say that the flat owner, with the assistance of the police, trespassed into the premises by opening the lock and by removing the tenant's belongings.
In the order, the Commissioner observed that the complaint had been gradually dispossessed and thrown out with the support and active assistance of Jagarbarsali, Inspector Ashokan and Sub-Inspector Subashini.
From the victim's oral testimony, it was seen that the several third parties had not broken open the door but also trespassed into the flat with the knowledge of the Inspector and Sub-Inspector. Also no timely and proper action was taken on the victim's complaints. Her representation to the Assistant-Commissioner was no avail. Instead, she received verbal abuses and threats to vacate the premises.
The officials exhibited mala fide exercise of power. They made the petitioner to run from pillar to post, apart from subjecting her to constant mental agony and torture.
As ordered by the Commission, the government said Rs. 1.50 lakh would be recovered from the salaries of the Assistant Commissioner, Inspector and Sub-Inspector.
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