A 29-year-old private firm employee in Bengaluru accused a police sub-inspector of assault, harassment and criminal intimidation, alleging that the PSI named Koushik N V and attached to the Magadi Road police station, mistreated his family during an inquiry citing a cheating case filed in August 2025 despite the him and his family securing anticipatory bail by the court in the case.

The cheating case filed by a woman named Lakshmi, alleged that Avinash's mother Pramila cheated her and others of several lakhs of rupees through a chit fund scheme and named Avinash, his mother Pramila, father Basavaraj and sister Sowmya as accused. “In spite of the anticipatory bail granted by the court, PSI Koushik N V summoned my mother, father and sister to the police station on September 20, 2025, without issuing any notice,” the FIR quotes the complainant as stating, a report by Indian Express said.

The FIR also mentions that the officer “abused my [Avinash’s] mother and sister in filthy language and assaulted them,” and that the family members were “wrongfully detained in the police station till 6 pm and subjected to verbal abuse and threats.”

The 61st city civil court granted bail to the accused on September 26, 2025.

Avinash has also alleged that when he visited the police station on October 11, 2025, to submit a certified copy of the bail order, the PSI “abused me, caught me by my collar and threatened to implicate me in additional cases and send me to jail despite the bail order.”

He stated that he suffered shock following the incident and was treated at K C General Hospital.

A case has now been registered against Koushik, as well as Lakshmi and her husband Narasimha, on charges of assault, harassment and criminal intimidation.

Police sources as cited by Indian Express, described the allegations as “false and baseless” and said an independent investigating officer has been appointed to probe the matter.

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