SOME of police members at Magatle Police Station might find themselves facing the might of the law if the wrongful arrest and alleged physical assault case against them is anything to go by.
This after a recent incident where three learners at the Piet Aphane Secondary School at Magatle village in Zebediela were arrested after being accused of stealing a fellow learner’s cellphone.
According to Lepelle Review’s reliable source, a learner whose father is a Police Officer at Magatle Police Station reported his missing cellphone at the principal and pointed the three victimised fellow learners to have stolen his phone.
“The three suspects were summoned to the principal’s office for questioning but they denied any knowledge about the lost phone.”
Just as everyone thought the missing phone matter was put to rest, surprisingly a week later the father of the learner who lost his phone went to the school with police van accompanied by other policemen on another van and they arrested the three suspects.
Arriving at the police station, the learners allegedly that they were assaulted and tortured by the police despite maintaining their innocence. This ordeal continued for about three hours. They were later released and were told to go home on foot with their injuries. Remember their parents were never informed about anything regarding the lost phone and their children being taken to the station. The phone was said to have discovered in another learner who is not part of the three suspected learners.
The angry parents of the victims’ effort to get full information about the whole saga were fruitless as neither the school staffers nor officials at the Magatle Schools Circuit couldn’t help them.
The parents had to take the injured learners to Magatle Hospital for treatment, and one of those learners is so badly affected so much that that is reported to have badly affected on one of his lungs as a results of torture and the spray they used on them at the station.
