Hyderabad: A Muslim driver was allegedly tortured by traffic police personnel at a police station in Shamshabad near Hyderabad Airport.
DCM driver Mohammad Subhan on Wednesday alleged that he was physically tortured at the police station in Shamshabad, where he was kept in custody for three days. Showing injuries on his entire body, Subhan said that a traffic police officer used abusive language and also asked him to go to Pakistan.
Subhan, who was let off by the police on the intervention of Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi, said that his vehicle was photographed by a traffic policeman while he was driving from the vegetable market in Shamshabad.
He got down from his vehicle and requested the policeman to remove the picture and not to impose a fine on him in view of the lockdown. The driver alleged that the policeman then abused and slapped him.
“Then I caught me by my collar. Meanwhile another traffic cop came there and they dragged me to the police station.”
Subhan said that he was kept in the traffic police section on the first floor of the police station, where he was tortured. “They beat me with sticks and plastic pipes. I have bruises on my arms, legs and soles. An officer also kicked me and told me to go to Pakistan, ”said Subhan.
The driver also claimed that some police personnel dressed his wounds because they feared that the word might spread about his physical torture.
He said the police released him three days after Owaisi’s intervention.
Subhan was detained and beaten by the traffic police near Hyderabad Airport. He was taken to the police station where the police tortured him for 3 days.they insults the anti-Muslim and asks him to go to Pakistan.
I came to know about him and immediately spoke to the CI who released him, ”tweeted Owaisi.
Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) President Owaisi demanded that all policemen participating in these criminal activities should be immediately suspended and severe punishment.He said that there could be no excuse for torture.
The MP hoped that the Cyberabad police commissioner, who is known for meting out ‘instant justice’, will take swift and strict action in this case too.
He also urged the Telangana DGP to take immediate steps to curb such police atrocities.
