Cop at Marine Drive chowky accused of abusing woman

By S Ahmed Ali TIMES NEWS NETWORK 

May 11,2005
Mumbai: Barely two weeks after senior inspector Isak Bagwan was transferred from the Marine Drive police station over the rape of a minor in a police chowky, his successor Arjun Bagdi is in trouble. Bagdi has been accused of abusing and threatening a woman at the police station.
    Geeta Salvi (33), a pathologist with Cooper Hospital, complained to the Dadar metropolitan magistrate that she was abused and threatened at the Marine Drive police station by a plainclothes police officer at 7.30 pm on May 4. 
    The officer was sitting in the senior inspector’s cabin which had the name plate of Arjun Bagdi. Later, she identified Bagdi from a photograph shown to her by this correspondent.
    Geeta and her brother Vijay Salvi (28) went to the police station following a court summons in a civil dispute with a builder. Defending himself, Bagdi said, “The lady and her brother had at least 21 bailable and non-bailable warrants against them over the last one year.’’ He added, “I love myuniform—it was not me, I never sit in civil dress when I’m in the police station.’’
    Magistrate M K Ramteke has ordered the assistant police commissioner of Colaba division to investigate Geeta’s allegation. ACP Mohan Rathod has also been ordered to identify the police officer and submit a report within three days.
    On Tuesday, ACP Rathod told this correspondent that he had submitted the report to the court on Monday. Geeta, however, said no policeman had approached her for her version or to ask her to identify the officer “who used foul language and threatened to beat me with his belt when I protested’’.
    Asked whether he had sought Geeta’s version, Rathod said, “I thought the lady was in jail and I didn’t have her address, but I will inquire again.’’

Arjun Bagdi (right) allegedly threatened to beat up a woman