NHRC threatened me with suspension: ACP tells panel on Disha case

‘Officials did not record what I had stated and picked up an argument with me’

The then Assistant Commissioner of Police (Shadnagar Division) Vasam Surender told the Supreme Court-appointed commission inquiring the alleged encounter of the four accused in the rape and murder of Disha on December 6, 2019, that he was threatened by officials of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) while taking his deposition.

Referring to the 15-page signed statements of Mr. Surender recorded by the NHRC, which was later submitted to the panel, the commission’s advocate Virupaksha Dattatreya Gouda asked, “Is this your statement before NHRC?”

“The signatures on all the pages are mine. I do not know what statement they have written. It was late in the night and they threatened me to a report against me saying that I would be suspended,” the officer said.