Odisha Custody Assault Case: Court Allows Lie-Detector Test On Suspended IIC

Bhubaneswar: The SDJM court here on Wednesday granted permission for lie-detector test on Dinakrushna Mishra, the suspended IIC of Bharatpur police station, in connection with the alleged custody torture of an Army officer and sexual assault of his fiancée on the intervening night of September 14-15.

The state Crime Branch (CB) had moved the court, seeking permission for a polygraph test on the officer’s fiancée and police personnel accused of sexual misconduct since the investigation had become challenging in the absence of CCTV cameras at the police station and independent witnesses amid conflicting allegations from both parties.

The CB is likely to take him to Gandhinagar in Gujarat for the polygraph test soon.

Sources said that the suspended cop had given consent for lie detection, brain-mapping and narco-analysis test. “I am innocent. I am not involved in the commission of the offences as alleged against me. I do not have any objection to undergo narco analysis, polygraph and brain finger printing tests. I am giving the consent on my own accord and free will,” he told the court.

The agency had also secured a contest from the victim, sources added.

The woman had alleged that she was dragged into a room at the police station, stripped and assaulted by four men and three women cops, including the suspended IIC. “The IIC sexually harassed and molested my fiancée and I could hear the screams for 30 minutes,” the Army officer had alleged in his compliant to the additional director general, CB.

His fiancée had claimed that a male officer flashed her and asked her, “How many times would you like to take it to shut up?”

Earlier in the day, the CB recreated the crime scene at Bharatpur police station and Chandaka road, where the Army captain and his fiancée had a scuffle with a group of youths. They had then gone to the police station to lodge a road rage complaint, leading to the alleged brutality.