Accident victims: Poor investigation into accident: SHRC orders Rs 300,000 compensation; action against policemen | Chennai News

Chennai: The State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has directed the Tamil Nadu government to pay Rs 300,000 compensation to an accident victim who lost his hand in an accident but could not get adequate compensation due to inadequate investigation and inadequate final report by the police concerned. Terming the accident an “inhuman” act, Commission member V Kannadasan directed the government to initiate appropriate departmental-level action against the erring police officials. According to the complainant Devi, on March 7, 2019, she was riding her two-wheeler on the Thiruthuraipoondi-Thiruvarur road. While she was trying to overtake a government bus, she was hit from behind by a pickup truck loaded with water canisters. She was thrown off the motorcycle and her left hand was crushed by the bus wheels. Though she was taken to the Thanjavur government medical college, her left hand had to be amputated due to the injury. A few days after the accident, she came to know that the pickup truck that caused the accident had neither been seized nor the driver arrested. When she enquired at the Thiruvarur taluk police station, she was told that the police could not trace the vehicle. The complainant claimed that she was forced to settle the case by accepting ₹50,000 as compensation. Since her complaint was not considered at the office of the superintendent of police and the district legal authority, she approached the SHRC.Kannadasan allowed her complaint and observed, “Due to the negligence of the police in charge and failure to investigate the case properly, the young woman lost her hand and such an inhuman attitude of the police is condemnable.” “Due to the police’s conduct, the complainant could not file an application under the Motor Vehicles Act to claim compensation for the grievous injuries she sustained in the accident,” the commission said.The police cannot quash the criminal case for the simple reason that the complainant did not provide the registration number of the vehicle involved in the accident. It is the job of the investigating officer to find out, the member added. The commission also recommended that the government take appropriate action at the ministerial level against mistakes made by police officers.

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