“The policemen have killed my boy. Naushad Kasimji was defending a number of victims who suffered torture in the hands of policemen and several cases involving human rights violation,” charged K Purushoththam Poojary, senior advocate of Naushad Kasimji, who was allegedly killed by unknown shooters on April 9. After filing a police complaint personally giving detailed information to N R Mukri, Circle inspector of police in Pandeswar Police station, Purushottam Poojary said, that his complaint is against Venkatesh Prasanna, circle inspector in the District Crime Intelligence Bureau (DCIB) and Jayanth Shetty, deputy commissioner of police, Shivaprakash, sub-inspector, Ullal Police station and Velantine D’souza, circle inspector, Panambur, as they are the main suspects in his junior Naushad’s murder, reports said on April 11.
“I urge for an investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation and the First Information Report should be handed over to that agency for enquiry,” he demanded. “My boy was brilliant, he was able to quote any judgment relating to any High Court in India and also the Supreme Court, and he could reproduce what he had read once. He was such a brilliant person,” he said about Naushad.
In the said complaint, Poojary quoted Naushad as saying that he had heard a policeman telling him, “You will have no more arguments” and this happened in the court premises, after the conclusion of his argument in the court objecting to any extension of police custody of Rashid Malabari, who was arrested in connection with underworld connection. “If policemen do not register my complaint, I will follow my own way to ensure that justice is done. I have many legal options to get justice,” added Purushottam Poojary, a well known criminal lawyer as well as a senior citizen who has trained most of the criminal lawyers in Mangalore.