Special Correspondent
Port Blair, May 20: It has been learnt from highly placed sources that Mr. Vijay Kumar, a Sub Inspector of CID has lost his one eye permanently due to an accident happened during interrogation of a suspect.
According to reports, the CID team had picked up a suspected Person from Hut Bay recently and the said person was interrogated for more than 12 days in CID Headquarter Port Blair. The details of the suspect are withheld considering National Interest, on request of the SP, CID, Mr. Sibhesh Singh.
During the interrogation the suspect reportedly accepted his involvement in unlawful activities, following which a multi-agency interrogation began at the CID office.
According to highly placed sources, during interrogation, when an staff from defence was hitting the suspect hard, with a stick, by mistake the stick had hit the eyeball of the CID officer, Mr. Vijay Kumar, who was present on the spot.
Following this, the CID officer was immediately taken to hospital, from where he was referred to Mainland for specialized treatment, from where now it has been conveyed that the eye is permanently damaged.
The operation of the CID officer is over now. Doctors have reportedly replaced the lense of the eye ball, which was dislocated but the damage in Retina could not be operated, considering the risk, a family member of the CID officer informed Andaman Sheekha.
Here the case against the suspect was lodged nearly three days back, which shows that such violent interrogation was conducted in total illegal manner.
Such vigorous interrogation has taken away one eye of a CID officer, just because some other interrogating staff did not take necessary safety precautions, while interrogating a suspect. Now the question is who should be blamed for this accident?
Meanwhile, the SP(CID) Mr. Sibhesh Singh has rubbished this news of Andaman Sheekha and said that the injury in the eye of the said officer has no link with the ongoing interrogation.
“The Officer already had eye problem and he has been seeing doctors in past also. When he applied for leave, I asked him personally the reason behind the injury but he did not say anything like injury during interrogation. As far as I know this is not true,” the SP CID added.
However, he promised to verify things once again and provide all information to Andaman Sheekha tomorrow.
Andaman Sheekha has evidence to prove that the eye was injured during an interrogation. Andaman Sheekha demands that truth behind the loss of an eye of CID officer, must come out and reach to the DGP and also the Lt Governor. There should not be any effort to hide facts, after all such disability may result in total career loss of the officer.