Mistaken for a thief who looted an auto driver at knife-point outside Bhayandar railway station, two constables dragged a 53-year-old Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) employee to the police station and beat him up badly with belts and lathis. However, they soon realised they had caught the wrong person. Mira-Bhayandar police commissioner Sadanand Date has ordered an inquiry and directed necessary action against the constables.

Sudden attack

The victim, identified as Adrich Agastine Gonsalves, works as an assistant technician at JNPT and resides in Vasai. Speaking to mid-day, Gonsalves said, “On Thursday night, on my way back home from work I took a train from Dadar station at 12.41 am to reach Vasai station. At Bhayandar station I decided to board a compartment towards the end of the train, as my bike was parked on the backside of Vasai station. After I got off the train and tried to board a different compartment, three unknown people suddenly attacked me. They said I had looted an auto driver at knife-point and started beating me up. They dragged me outside the station and asked the auto driver to identify me. When he said that I was the same person, they assaulted me further.”