Trader dies in police custody in Lucknow, SHO booked after family alleges torture

Based connected a ailment of Mohit’s parent Tageshwari Devi, an FIR has been filed against Adesh, a driver, his unidentified uncle, SHO Ashwani Kumar Chaturvedi, and different policemen astatine the Chinhat constabulary station. No arrests had been made yet, and the probe was ongoing, the constabulary said.

According to the police, the complainant alleged that connected the evening of October 25, her lad got into a insignificant quality with Adesh. Following a complaint, the constabulary arrived and took Mohit to the Chinhat constabulary station. Later, erstwhile Mohit’s elder member Shobha Ram went to the presumption to inquire astir him, helium was besides detained, allegedly connected the grounds of being intoxicated.

She claimed that nary enactment was past taken against Adesh owed to the power of his uncle, a governmental leader. The 2 brothers were kept successful abstracted rooms, and a fewer hours later, the constabulary besides brought Adesh to the station, she alleged. The complainant alleged that the constabulary brutally assaulted Mohit, resulting successful his death. To conceal the incident, they reportedly transported him to a hospital.

Assistant Commissioner of Police (Lucknow) Pankaj Kumar Singh said Mohit’s information worsened astatine the Chinhat constabulary station, prompting officers to instrumentality him to a assemblage wellness centre, which past referred him to Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, wherever helium was declared dead. The household was subsequently informed of his death.

Following the incident, a ample assemblage gathered, and Mohit’s household demanded enactment against the police. They besides alleged that constabulary officers did not let them to spot the assemblage earlier sending it for a post-mortem, the study of which was awaited.