Complaint filed against Police official for assaulting senior citizen

April 24: A video clipping of constable Pampavathi of Kadaba police station beating and kicking a 75-year-old Ramanna Gowda during the Kadaba fair on Sunday had gone viral on social media.
Human rights activist Prashanth D’Costa and Unique Abdul Rahiman, who met Gowda at the Kadaba hospital on Tuesday, April 23, filed a complaint with the Karnataka State Human Rights Commission (KSHRC) against a police official. Gowda informed the activists that a year ago he had filed a complaint against his relative Karthik at Kadaba police station for cheating him into handing over all his saving of Rs 1.75 lakh. The same relative had fooled Gowda’s wife Varija into sharing the PIN of her ATM card and had withdrawn all the money in Varija’s account. Even though Gowda visited the station repeatedly the Kadaba police had not probed into the case.
The couple has accused Pampavathi of acting at the orders of Karthik and beating Gowda to discourage him from filing another complaint. Pampavathi, while collecting the statement from the couple at the hospital, reportedly had written in a slip promising to get the amount deposited in their account before April 30.
Superintendent B M Laxmiprasad said that disciplinary action has been taken against the cops at Kadaba station for not getting Gowda admitted to a local hospital after the beating.