Chennai:
The State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has ordered the state government to pay a compensation of Rs 50,000 for violating the rights of a widow and her brother from Kerala.
The widow Sujatha (55), who is mother-in-law of Jagadeesh Kumar was picked up by the police along with her brother Sudhir Kumar (50) in Trivandrum, Kerala, while they were investigating a total of 27 cheating cases against Dr P Vijayakumar, father of Jagadeesh who was running Ayurvedic Vaidyasalai at Mylapore.
D Jayachandran, member of SHRC, while dismissing other charges of rights violation against Vijaykumar, his younger son Vijay Bhismar, his elder son Jagadeesh Kumar and daughter-in-law Anila, said that detention and torture of Anila’s mother Sujatha and her uncle Sudhir was with malicious intent and police had infringed upon constitutional and legal rights.
Jeyachandran said that the sum of Rs 25,000 each should be paid to Sujatha and Sudhir Kumar within four weeks and sum has to be recovered from Jawahar, the then inspector of law and order, Mylapore Police Station and Raghupathi, the then inspector of police (crime), Mylapore Police Station.
The police had registered 27 cases against Dr Vijayakumar, who had cheated several persons under the guise of curing incurable diseases. And his petitions have been dismissed by High courts of Madras and Kerala and the Apex court. Jagadeesh and Anila have filed anticipatory bail and are at large.
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