Overview
- Whitefield DCP K Parashuram ordered the Marathahalli ACP to investigate and submit findings within three days, with disciplinary action promised if wrongdoing is found.
- Karnataka home minister G Parameshwara asked the city police commissioner for a report and said action will follow if the allegations are proven.
- The 34-year-old worker, Sundari Bibi, alleges she and her husband were detained and beaten at Varthur police station on October 30 after a theft complaint.
- Her employers had earlier staged a ₹100 note 'sting' and cited CCTV before alleging a missing diamond ring, according to local reports.
- An activist’s intervention led to her release, a medico-legal case was registered at Bowring Hospital, and a West Bengal MP raised the case with the state chief minister’s office.