we were going to the police when the other boy told us what had happened in the afternoon birbhum sp sudheer kumar neelakantam said police have started a probe on wednesday my daughter found a boy climbing the coconut tree in my garden as far as i know the superintendent herself beat the boy the next morning to punish him neighbours also gathered and narrated the incident to me over phone she raised an alarm and my wife came out of her room i spoke to suri police chatterjees kin caught him in the act minister for women and child shashi development panja has sought a report on the incident he was absent at dinner as well a woman there behaved very rudely with them and said the boy was handed to suri police these boys often break into our houses and commit theft her allegation is baseless and motivated gour chatterjee said they rushed to my house within 15 minutes and took the boy to the police station suri a 12yearold tribal boy was allegedly confined in the home of a police officer in suri and handed to police merely for climbing a coconut tree in the compound the boy was returning to the staterun home with a class vii student after school on wednesday when in a moment of impulse he scaled the boundary wall and started climbing a coconut tree when the boys hostel superintendent went looking for him at night he found him naked and trembling in fear in a police station what happened between the time the santhali boy was hauled into the cops house and his discovery at the police station is yet to be known but its clear he was beaten and treated inhumanely by the cops our superintendent and a night guard rushed to chatterjees residence she also threatened our superintendent pointing out that chatterjee was a police officer suri state welfare home superintendent kakali kundu said we dont know the names of those who assaulted the boy so weve mentioned inspector gour chatterjees kin in our complaint a home official requesting anonymity said we got worried when we didnt spot the boy during tiffin break now the child is in hospital with a grievous head injury chatterjee now in durgapur working for the district intelligence branch dib did not deny asking suri police to take the child into custody but blamed the home superintendent for beating him we have informed the district child protection officer and admdevelopment