Balaji script writer arrested

Human Rights Comm hold police guilty in Smriti Irani's case

Mumbai: Finding police guilty of violating human rights, the Maharashtra state Human Rights Commission (MSHRC) has ordered the state government to pay Rs 20,000 as compensation to Rekha Modi, scriptwriter of Balaji Telefilms, who was arrested on charge of making threatening calls to BJP leader and TV actress Smruti Irani last year.

Hearing Modi's plea alleging police torture, the MSHRC also recently ordered a departmental inquiry against the then assistant police inspector S Pingle, senior police inspector Manik Mate and an assistant commissioner of police.

The MSHRC ordered that the compensation amount should be deducted from the salary of API Pingle.

Oshiwada police had arrested Modi and Rashmikant Kapadia, a real estate agent, on March 25 last year following a complaint filed by Irani saying the duo was making threatening and abusive telephone calls to her.

Modi alleged in the complaint to MSHRC that she was called to police station illegally, where male police officers used a rubber strip to whip her and forced her to confess the crime she had not committed.

Modi's lawyer and former police officer, Y P Singh, alleged that police had deliberately delayed the submission of FIR to the magistrate. Although it was registered on March 15 it was submitted to the court on April 2, he alleged.

According to MSHRC, police flouted all norms probably because the complainant was a celebrity and a BJP leader. It held the police guilty of not sending FIR to magistrate within the stipulated time, arresting Modi without preparing an arrest memo, not taking signatures of local witnesses, denying bail to the accused and beating her.

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