A man is claiming R300 000 damages from the minister of police after a policeman allegedly threw bleach into his eyes.
|||Pretoria - A man from Paarl in the Western Cape is claiming R300 000 damages from the minister of police after a policeman allegedly threw Jik liquid bleach into his eyes.
Mevin Lindon Jantjies is claiming this amount in the Pretoria High Court.
He said in court papers that on December 29, 2009, at Hopefield in the Western Cape, an officer identified only as Cleophas unlawfully assaulted him by throwing Jik into his eyes, hitting him with a rifle and punching him with his fists.
At the time, Cleophas acted within the scope of his employment as a police officer, he said.
Jantjies said he had to have medical treatment and he was unable to work for 120 days. He was humiliated by the attack, he said.
He did not give any details at this stage as to where and in what circumstances the alleged attack took place.
The police, in defending the claim, denied the attack and said Jantjies had to prove the incident.
On Wednesday the court consolidated Jantjies’s damages claim with that of his friend Richardo Winslo Witbooi, who is claiming damages arising from the same incident.
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