Theni: Inspector Sridhar, now suspended from Sathankulam police station in Thoothukudi, whose track record includes an attempt to murder case, and gross misuse of power in arresting counter petitioners to help protect his khakhi friend's interest, among others.
Sridhar was the station house officer (SHO) of Sathankulam when father-son-duo were subjected to custodial torture which ultimately led to their untimely deaths.
According to an internal report accessed by ETV Bharat, the then Additional SP of Prohibition Enforcement Wing, Nagercoil, Kanniyakumari district, has indicted that Sridhar, who was posted as an inspector at Rajakamangalam Police station in 2011, has arrested 11 persons, including a petitioner who had lodged a complaint against one of his friends in a land grabbing case. In order to save his friend, he arrested the ones who had lodged complaints against the former.
The report notes that the Inspector was hasty in making the arrest without pursuing the facts in the case and slammed him for being lopsided in the probe. Sridhar sided of Ayyakannu, a then head constable attached to the special branch, and acted in favour of the complaint lodged by the latter's wife. Revenue department's report was crystal clear that the encroacher is Ayyakannu not otherwise as painted in his wife's complaint. The ADSP has suggested Sridhar's actions will have to be dealt with for his hasty action.
The report revealed that he arrested people without initiating any detailed investigation into the case and had been biased in most of the cases handed over to him during his tenure.
