However, none of the six continue to be at Shinor. While sub-inspector Praveen Chaudhary was moved out of the district -- the only one to be so affected -- to the Godhra police station in Panchmahals, head constables Bhavji Parmar and Naranbhau Rathwa are currently posted at the Chhotaudepur and Savli police stations respectively.

Constables Kuber Parmar and Chitubhai Rabari are stationed at the Kwant police station, while Chandubhai Parmar is at the Rangpur police station.

All six were suspended on December 12, 1998, after the media highlighted 25-year-old Manjulaben Vasava's allegation that she had been assaulted, raped and tortured in the police station itself over three days, while she was in custody in connection with a speech-impaired youth's disappearance.

Vasava was admitted to SSG Hospital on December 3, but the FIR was registered in the case six days later, after Waghodia MLA Madhu Shrivastava took up the matter with senior police and administration officials. The PSI and his subordinates were charged under Sections 323 and 324 of the IPC (mental torture and injury) and under Section 3(1)(10) of the Atrocities Act. The suspensions were revoked on May 12, 1999, while the case was still in court.

Incidentally, Vasava, who was accused of kidnapping the youth with the intention of selling his kidney, was granted bail in the case in December. The youth in question returned to his village after two weeks; his organs were found to be untouched in a medical check-up.