The National Human Rights Commission has directed the Uttar Pradesh authorities to pay compensation of Rs 10 lakh to the household of a person who died in March 2021 after allegedly having been tortured in police custody, The Indian Express reported on Friday.
The fee pulled up the Uttar Pradesh Police for “intentionally concealing info” and failing to clarify the a number of accidents discovered on the physique of the 36-year-old man, Ziauddin, from Ambedkar Nagar, the newspaper reported.
It noticed that there was “little doubt” that the person had been introduced by the police to the police station.
The autopsy examination recorded eight harm marks, however “the report is silent as to how and when the deceased would have sustained” the accidents, The Indian Express quoted the order as saying.
There was additionally “no justification in regards to the nature of accidents whereas he was in custody of the police,” it added.
The order got here after the fee dismissed the state authorities’s reply to a show-cause discover and upheld its earlier discovering that Ziauddin had died in police custody.
The fee stated that within the absence of any materials earlier than the panel, it couldn’t conclude “that the demise of the deceased didn’t happen whereas within the police custody”, the newspaper reported.
The case
Ziauddin was picked up on March 25, 2021, by a police group led by Sub-Inspector Devendra Pal whereas he was on his strategy to a relative’s dwelling, The Indian Express quoted the criticism filed by his brother Shahadbuddin as saying.
The household was advised of his demise just a few hours later. Shahabuddin alleged that no medical examination or autopsy was initially performed, the newspaper reported.
The police later claimed that Ziauddin had been picked up for interrogation based mostly on name data linking him to an individual accused in an attempt-to-murder case.
They stated that his well being deteriorated on the best way to the police station and he was shifted to hospital the place he died at 1.45 am on March 26, 2021.
The autopsy report confirmed abrasions and contusions at eight locations on his arms, legs and buttocks, and listed the reason for demise as “hypoxia and shock as a consequence of antemortem lung harm with a number of blunt accidents”.
A primary data report was filed underneath sections of the Indian Penal Code pertaining to homicide, and kidnapping or abducting somebody with the intent to homicide them, towards Pal and a constable.
In May 2022, the police submitted a remaining report claiming there was no proof of custodial torture and that Ziauddin was “not in police custody” on the time of his demise.
