A 34-year-old auto driver, Arjun Mane, has alleged that Nehru Nagar Police Inspector Deepak Surve used the third degree on him, after detaining him in a case over family related issues. Mane has claimed the Inspector thrashed him with a chakki belt (flour mill belt) continuously for almost 15 minutes, and stopped only after the severely injured Mane urinated in his cabin at the Nehru Nagar police station in Kurla.

'Thrashed continuously'
According to Mane, who stays in Kurla, "On January 9 at 12 am I was called to the Nehru Nagar police station after my wife filed an NC for troubling her over family related issues. The police detained me the whole day and night and on the afternoon of January 11, I was thrashed by PI Deepak Surve in front of my wife, Rama, 31." Mane also alleged that the officer beat him even as his wife pleaded with him to stop. "He stopped only after I peed in the police station in his cabin," Mane said. He has contusions all over his body.