Bhubaneswar: A team of Odisha Crime Branch will go to Gujarat with cops named in Bharatpur custodial torture case, to carry out polygraph tests, said sources.
The probe team will head for Gujarat on Sunday to conduct a polygraph test on IIC Dinakrushna Mishra and four others, who have been placed under suspension for allegedly assaulting an army captain and his fiancée at the police station, said sources.
Amid national outrage on the incident, Odisha Police suspended Bharatpur IIC Dinakrushna Mishra, Sub Inspector Baisalini Panda, WASI Salilamayee Sahoo, ASI Sagarika Rath, and Constable Balaram Hansda.
The case relates to an army captain and his fiancée allegedly assaulted by cops at Bharatpur Police Station in Bhubaneswar on September 15.
The couple had visited the police station to lodge a complaint against some miscreants over an incident of road rage at midnight.