Mysuru: In an interesting development, an habitual offender from Mandya District, filed a complaint with Human Rights Commission alleging that cops were harassing him by filing false cases against him.

The habitual offender, who has sought permission from the Commission to end his life in case of not being provided justice, has been identified as Nagaraju alias Kapi Nagaraju, a resident of Chikkamandagere in K.R. Pet taluk in Mandya District.

In his complaint, Nagaraju claimed that he had committed only two thefts and was falsely fitted by Police in 37 other cases. He also said that the police have been harassing him on a daily basis by summoning him to the Station.

Explaining his involvement in one case, Nagaraju has said that in the lure for the mobile, he was using a mobile found below the seat of a car of an employee of a call centre in Bengaluru where he was working as the car driver in 2010, but Police arrested him on charges of stealing the same and sent him to jail. After being released, I had brought gold from a thief named Kumar of Vyalikaval in Bengaluru in which also I was fitted wrongly, Nagaraju has said in his complaint.

Continuing, Nagaraju has alleged that Vijayanagar Police in Mysuru were now harassing him by summoning him often after fitting him in 37 false cases including a case of a robbery in Vijayanagar 4th Stage.

It is alleged that Nagaraju is one of the accused in the case of burglary at a room in Hotel Grand Maurya on Hunsur Road in city where the miscreants had force-opened the backdoor of the room and had made away with 500 gms of gold jewellery worth about Rs. 15 lakh in the wee hours of June 9, 2014.