Daijiworld Media Network – Sullia (SP)

Sullia, Jul 16: Two women have complained to the district superintendent of police, seeking action against Sullia police station circle inspector, Satish B S, accusing him of behaving rudely with women visitors.

"The situation has turned so worse that women backtrack from visiting this police station to file complaints. The circle inspector behaves in an uncivilized manner with women. His obscene behaviour includes video taping of women, behaving indecently, touching them etc, which evoke among the women a sense of awkwardness," the complainants, Shambhavi Wagle and Bharati, said.

They have charged the circle inspector of not taking interest in investigating cases, and instead, insulting those who come to file complaints, and thereby inflicting mental harassment on women who come to the station.

"In his suicide note, my husband, B K Teertharam, who worked for Aranthodu Cooperative Society, had said he had decided to commit suicide, frustrated by the harassment he suffered at the hands of the management of the society. I demanded a detailed investigation into the case, but Satish, who made derogatory remarks about me, threatened me to withdraw my complaint. In the name of interrogation, he video taped my movements in the station," Bharati told the press persons.

Shambhavi Wagle said that the circle inspector did not evince any interest in recovering the ornaments from a thief, who had stolen them from her house, even after arresting him. She accused the inspector of pressing her to settle the issue amicably with the thief. 'He visited my house and video graphed me and my daughter. He came without being accompanied by women constables and behaved in uncivilized manner,' she added.

It is said that the Sullia police circle inspector also faces complaints of indecent behaviour concerning investigation into the order of the Human Rights Commission seeking inquiry into the suspicion that children of the taluk are being sacrificed for sorcery. An NGO, 'Sarathi Law Forum' based in Bangalore, had filed a complaint with the commission, taking into account a number of deaths of small children in the taluk over a period of time.