Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (MS)
Mangaluru, Dec 29: Former mayor Ashraf, who got injured in police lathi-charge during the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests held in the city on December 19, has filed a complaint with the police regarding the atrocities of police personnel, who allegedly barged into his room in the hospital where he was admitted in the city and made a video of his room and scared him and his family.
K Ashraf (53), a resident of Al Araf Manzil, Ansaria Road, Bunder, Mangaluru, has filed a complaint in this regard with the station officer of Mangaluru East police station.
In his complaint, filed through post as he is unable to go to the police station personally, Ashraf says, "I was admitted into the ICU of Unity Hospital on December 19 after I was injured in the lathi-charge done by the police. I was later transferred to room number 212 on the second floor of the hospital. Visitors were not allowed in order to upkeep my health as per the advice of the doctors.
"However, on December 25 midnight, precisely around 1 am on December 26, when I, my wife and my nephew Wasim were in deep sleep, four to five police knocked on the door of our room. When my nephew Wasim opened the door and asked as to what they want, they entered the room forcefully in a threatening manner and made video of the room and went away. I, my wife and my nephew were mentally shocked due to this incident.
"I hereby request you to take suitable action against the policemen, who violated our privacy and entered our room in the hospital in the dead of the night, without taking any permission and also mentally harassed us by videographing our room in a threatening manner.
"I have received serious injury during the incident that occurred on December 19 and still under treatment at Unity Hospital as an inpatient. So I am unable to visit your station personally and sending this letter through post," he has stated in his complaint.
The copies of the letter sent by Ashraf are also marked to the home minister of Karnataka government, president of Human Rights Commission, Bengaluru and IG and DGP of Karnataka state, stationed in Bengaluru.