An FIR has been registered in opposition to 4 policemen in reference to the dying of a 28-year-old Dalit man who died quickly after being apprehended from a playing den in Lucknow’s Vikas Nagar on Friday night time.
The household of the deceased, Aman Gautam, alleged that he died on account of a extreme beating by the police in custody.
Angered by the incident, the person’s household and others staged a protest, refusing to carry out the ultimate rites until motion is taken in opposition to the officers concerned.
Vikas Nagar police station in-charge Vipin Singh mentioned the FIR was filed in opposition to Shailendra Singh, head constable, and three unidentified cops underneath Part 105 (culpable murder not amounting to homicide) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and provisions of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (SC/ST) Act on the grievance of the deceased’s spouse Roshini Gautam.
In her grievance, Roshni alleged that her husband was sitting at Ambedkar Park in Vikas Nagar on Friday night time when a police crew reached there and began thrashing and abusing Gautam, who fell unconscious and was taken to a hospital by the cops.
She additional alleged that head constable Shailendra Singh was the principle individual behind the assault on her husband.
No arrests have been made within the case thus far, he added.
The police denied the allegations of torture, stating that the postmortem discovered no deep accidents and that the dying occurred attributable to “cardiogenic shock”.
