Assault On Two Girls: OHRC Asks DGP To Submit Report Within A Week

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Human Rights Commission (OHRC) on Monday asked Director General of Police (DGP) Rajendra Prasad Sharma to conduct a thorough investigation into the incident involving circulation of a video, featuring a girl and her sister revealing injuries that they had sustained after allegedly being assaulted by Nayapalli police.

The OHRC had asked the DGP to submit the investigation report within a week.

On Saturday night, the inspector-in-charge of the police station concerned, Sangram Patnaik, was transferred to Reserve Police.

Two women sub-inspectors, Minati Nayak and Sasmita Dhal, were also transferred in connection with the incident.

On the other hand, Umakant Pradhan was given charge as the IIC of Nayapalli police station. Pradhan was serving as the additional IIC of Capital Police Station here.

The transfers were done following a directive from the DGP.

However, the officers of Nayapalli police station had refuted the allegation levelled against them.

According to police, a team of Nayapalli police had gone to Behera Sahi after receiving a complaint about a clash between two families over a property dispute on May 6. Two woman constables were also injured while pacifying the agitated families. The accused, including the complainants, were arrested and forwarded to court.

The injury marks on the body of the girls, who were later released on bail, might be the result of the violent clash, police had claimed.

The matter came to the fore after a video, featuring the two girls revealing injuries that they had sustained after allegedly being assaulted by cops went viral on social media on Saturday morning.