Police face R1m suit for alleged illegal arrest
A Zimbabwean man who was allegedly illegally arrested and detained by rogue police officers is suing the SAPS for R1m, says a report in The Star.
Nathan Meda said Gauteng Police Commissioner Lieutenant-General Deliwe de Lange had failed to act on his 250-page dossier detailing the abuse and harassment he and his wife, Sherylie Tsungayi Ngorima, suffered at the hands of rogue policemen from the Elsburg police station in Germiston.
Meda works for his wife, who runs an IT business that sells computers and LCD screens.
He said his problems started in September 2014 when Ngorima sold 10 screens to a client who came back with the police a month later, claiming the items belonged to the Department of Education and had been stolen.
He was later arrested and spent about a week in Boksburg Prison before being released on R600 bail.
He appeared in the Boksburg Magistrate’s Court in November and the case was postponed to December and then withdrawn.
He later found out that his application to extend his Zimbabwean Special Dispensation Permit had been rejected by the Department of Home Affairs because of ‘a criminal offence committed under schedule 2: stolen property’.
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