Police Atrocity in Bhubaneswar

October 14, 2009

On 7th October evening at 7, while enjoying with my friend Manoj Barik at Indira

Gandhi Park, a few guys came and threatened us that we cannot sit in the park

and used abusive language to get us out of the park, when we refused to leave

the park, they hit us and called us chakka, maichia and beat us black and blue.

They invited a few more of their friends who came and threatened us and beat us

up and tried to bodily remove us from the park.

We refused and resisted initially and then realized the danger we were in and

called up the police. We repeatedly called up the police to come and help us

for fifteen minutes no police turned up.

Ultimately after fifteen minutes the PCR van turned up and asked us what the

matter was; when we started narrating he did not hear our entire story but

looked us up and down and asked us to accompany the van to the CAPITAL POLICE

STATION, Bhubaneswar.

When I (Subham) and Manoj Barik reached the Police Station along with the

gentleman who threatened me (Mr. Pradyumna Choudary, Old Town, Bhubaneswar, his

friends had vanished), the police were more interested in what he had to say,

and never even recorded our complaint, despite the fact that I was the one who

had called up the police.

Till night 12.00 I along with Manoj sat at the police station, listening to the

abuses at the police station, whereas Mr. Choudary was already out of the police

station.

We were not even allowed to drink water, or go to the toilet. The Police Sub

Inspector was abusive and even went to the extent of saying that maichiyas like

us should be killed first.

Ultimately at the end we realized that the only way out would be not to do

anything but apologize to all and just get out of the police station. Both I and

Manoj apologized to Mr. Pradyumna Choudary. The Police Sub Inspector ultimately

let us go warning us of dire consequences if we were caught next time.

I am not sure where humanity is, even if you do not like me being a gay you can

at least recognize me as a human being, and that day in the police station for

the first time I felt as if I was sub human, or may be an ant or a parasite or

something.

Hope even my enemy is not treated like this.

As stated by Subham (Satya Sunder Mishra)

Bhubaneswar, Orissa

Sarita Barpanda

e-mail: <saritabarpanda@...>

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