The Kalaburagi police have arrested seven persons for allegedly torturing three youths by stripping, giving electric shocks, beating with wooden sticks on their genitals and threatening to kill them, in the city last week.
As per the information provided by Police Commissioner R. Chetan, a case has been registered against Imran Patel, Mohammad Mateen (Steel Mateen) - both residents of Ganesh Nagar; Mohammad Ziya Ullah Hussain – resident of Mujaheer Nagar; Mohammad Afzal Shaikh – resident of Islamabad colony; Hussain Shaikh from Millat Nagar; and Ramesh Doddamani and Sagar Koli from Chitapur taluk; and four others.
Arjunappa Madival of Devanoor village in Sedam taluk, Mohammad Sameeruddin of Islamabad Colony and Abdul Rehman of Hirapur in Kalaburagi are the victims who were confined to a building in an isolated area on the Hagarga road for 24 hours (from May 4 to 5) and tortured, which was captured by the accused on their mobile phones and circulated on social media.
