A/HRC/4/33/Add.1 Page 106 Para 83. Country Date 30/10/06 Type JAL Mandate SUMEX; TOR; Allegations transmitted beat and kick him. Harbhajan Singh was released on 29 August 2006. Saju, a private bus conductor, Kerala State. On 8 September 2006, Mr Saju was taken into custody by three police officers from Kunnathunadu Police Station, accused of the theft of three telephone posts. According to our sources the posts had been abandoned by the Kunnathunadu Telephone Office on the road near Mr Saju’s home, and he picked them up and used them as a protective barricade around an open well so that children and animals would not fall into the well. The police officers told Mr Saju he had to give them 3000 rupees (68 USD) if he wanted to be released, money that Mr Saju refused to pay. Mr Aliyar, a person who was also taken into custody by the police officers in connection with the same crime, was released by the police after he accepted to bribe the police officers. On 9 August 2006, at about 3:00pm Mr Saju’s wife went to Kunnathunadu Police Station to visit her husband, who told her that he had been tortured because he refused to pay a bribe to the police officers. Ms Saju returned home and at about 4:30pm she received a call informing her that Mr Saju was at the Kolenchery Medical College. At the hospital she was informed that her husband died at the police station. A doctor asked her whether Mr Saju had any previous ailments. Ms Saju said her husband was perfectly healthy and that he had complained about the police torturing him while he was held in custody. Government Response