Saturday, December 17, 2011: The Alappuzha Chief judicial magistrate Court here today acquitted Tomin J Thachankary along with seven others in a case relating to the alleged custodial torture of Punnappra Prakashan.The accused were acquitted by the Court following the victim’s decision to withdraw the complaint filed.
Thachankary, along with seven other police officers, has been accused of falsely implicating a person in a murder case and torturing him in custody. The episode is in connection with a case registered against Prakashan, a resident of Punnapra, which was booked by Thachankary when he was Assistant Superintendent of Police, Alappuzha, in 1991.
Thachankary allegedly altered a suicide case into one of murder and accused Prakashan of being the culprit, after which he took Prakashan into custody and allegedly tortured him to confess to the crime. Prakashan, who was in custody for seven days and in remand for 57 days, was released after a public action council intervened.
Prakashan then lodged a complaint against Thachankary, after which the case with the senior police officer as first accused was registered.
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