Kochi: Four police officers of Kunnamkulam police station were today suspended in connection with custodial assault of a Youth Congress leader V S Sujith on April 5, 2023, media reports said.
The action was taken based on the report submitted by the Thrissur Range DIG to the IG of police.
The suspended police personnel are Sub Inspector Nuhman, Civil Police Officers Saseendran, Sandeep and Sajeevan. A police driver, Suhair was accused by Sujit of assaulting him.
Shuhair is currently working in a different Department.
The DGP got a go ahead legal advice to initiate departmental action against the accused.
The incident of police brutality surfaced after the court ordered release of CCTV video footage after Sujith moved the court against the accused cops.
Sujith moved the court after his complaint to top police officials was taken lightly by awarding only three of the five minor punishments.
Police detained Sujith for questioning the police for threatening his friends on the roadside. The police also falsely implicated him in a drunkenness case which was proved wrong by a medical test.
Sujith also accused the accident police of offering him money to withdraw a complaint against them, the reports said.
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